Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, ed. Judie Newman This, the first modern edition of Stowe's second abolitionist bestseller, launched the novel back into the American literary canon, as a compelling dramatization of a heroic black revolutionary leading a community of escaped slaves. Writing strategically against slavery, Stowe deployed all the weapons in a great writer's armoury; romance, realism, religious appeal, Gothic, broad comedy, strong black women characters, frontier violence and a blistering satire on the American legal system. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the centrality of slavery to American literature and history- and for anyone who enjoys a great novelist writing at the height of her powers. Keywords: Slavery, Novel, African American Studies, Religion, Law, Race-Relations, Insurrection, Women's Studies. Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham.

About the Author
Judie Newman, OBE , is a former Chair of the British Association for American Studies, a Founding Fellow of the English Association, the recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American Studies, and Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham.


Book Information
ISBN 9781853310386
Author Judie Newman
Format Paperback
Page Count 752
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 882g