Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1880. Mark Twain, ca. 1907. (Images courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction numbers, LC-USZ62-11212 and LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy negatives)].)
Instructor(s)
Wyn Kelley
MIT Course Number
21L.702
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.
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