STOWE'S DRED AND THE NARRATIVE LOGIC OF SLAVERY'S EXTENSION.(Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp")

From: Studies in American Fiction | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Grant, David | Copyright information

In writing Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the first major American author to produce what amounts to a campaign novel. Composed as the events that shaped the canvass unfolded and as the Republican party completed its national organization, excerpted in many Republican newspapers before its release, prefaced so as to steer its reception toward the great decision facing the nation, published in the late summer as election excitement was reaching ...

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