The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-2002

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 269 pages
A detailed account of the publishing history of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Among the major issues Claire Parfait addresses are the conditions of female authorship, the structures of copyright, author-publisher relations, agency, and literary economics.

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Contents

Introduction
1
From Inception to Serialization
7
Uncle Toms Cabin The Contract
33
The Story of the Age Advertising and Promotion
47
Uncle Toms Cabin The Book 18521853
67
Distribution and Sales 18521863
91
Uncle Toms Cabin 18631893
113
Uncle Toms Cabin 18931930
153
Eclipse and Renaissance Uncle Toms Cabin 19302002
177
Conclusion
203
Serialization of Uncle Toms Cabin in The National Era
207
American Editions of Uncle Toms Cabin
211
Select Bibliography
241
Index
257
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Claire Parfait is Professor of American Studies at Universite Paris 13, France.

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