词条 | Aunt Phillis's Cabin |
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| name = Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is | image = Aunt Phillis's Cabin.jpg | caption = Title page of the 1852 edition | author = Mary Henderson Eastman | country = United States | language = English | genre = Plantation literature Social novel | publisher = Lippincott, Grambo & Co. | release_date = 1852 | media_type = Print | pages = c. 300 pp (May change depending on the publisher and the size of the text) }} Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000–30,000 copies, making it a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings. OverviewPublished in 1852, Aunt Phillis's Cabin contains contrasts and comparisons to the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published earlier that year. It serves as an antithesis; Eastman's novel deliberately referred to the situation in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, where plantation owners abuse their repressed, disloyal slaves. Eastman portrays white plantation owners who behave benignly toward their slaves. Eastman also uses quotes from various sources – including Uncle Tom's Cabin itself – to explain that slavery is a natural institution, and essential to life.[1] Like other novels of the genre, it contains much dialogue between masters and slaves, in which she portrays "the essential happiness of slaves in the South as compared to the inevitable sufferings of free blacks and the working classes in the North," as noted by the scholar Stephen Railton in the website Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture.[2] PlotThe story is set in unnamed rural town in Virginia, which is frequented by several plantation owners living around it. The town relies on trade from the cotton plantations for its economy. Understanding this, the plantation owners, in contrast to their neighbors in surrounding towns, have adopted a benign approach towards their slaves to keep them peaceful and assure the safety of the town. Several characters in and around the town are introduced throughout the story, demonstrating how this process works and the delicate balance of such a process in action. Characters
ReceptionAlthough obscure today, the novel remains one of the most-read examples of the anti-Tom genre. Between 20,000 and 30,000 copies of Aunt Phillis's Cabin were sold upon its initial release in 1852.[3] The novel was the most commercially successful of the anti-Tom genre until the publication of The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good in 1853, which sold 8,000 copies within the first weeks of publication.[4] Publication historyAunt Phillis's Cabin was released in 1852 – the same year that Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in book form – by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia (better known as J. B. Lippincott & Co.) As a major publishing house, the company released other anti-Tom novels, including A Tale of the South by Martha Haines Butt (1853),[5] and Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent by Vidi (1853).[5]In other works
References1. ^M.H. Eastman, Preface to Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852) 2. ^Pro-Slavery Novels: "Aunt Phillis' Cabin", Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, University of Virginia, 1998-2009, accessed 23 February 2011 3. ^"Mary Henderson Eastman", Pro-Slavery Novels, University of Virginia 4. ^"McIntosh", Pro-Slavery Novels, University of Virginia 5. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20080630015806/http://www.bartleby.com/65/we/Weld-The.html Weld, Theodore Dwight], The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001–2005. Retrieved May 15, 2007. 6. ^Preface of Aunt Phillis's Cabin - M.H. Eastman (1852) 7. ^1 2 Stephen Railton, "Anti Uncle Tom Novels", Pro-Slavery Novels, Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, University of Virginia, 1998-2009, accessed 23 February 2011 8. ^"Frank Freeman's Barber Shop", Pro-slavery Novels, Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture website, University of Virginia 9. ^"Uncle Robin and Runaway Tom", Pro-slavery Novels, Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, University of Virginia External links{{Portal|United States|Novels}}{{wikisource|Aunt Phillis's Cabin}}{{Gutenberg|no=16741|name=Aunt Phillis's Cabin}}{{Uncle Tom's Cabin}} 5 : Slave cabins and quarters|1852 American novels|Anti-Tom novels|Novels set in Virginia|Lippincott, Grambo & Co. books |
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