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