AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

Ep. 4 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Identify the social, cultural, and political expectations on women the U.S. prior to suffrage. What impact, if any, does sentimental literature have on politics? See also, Sensational Designs.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

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Ep. 3 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Evaluate Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a novel-as-sermon and the transformation of character of Uncle Tom in the popular mind as commendatory to derisive. See also Jane Tompkins's groundbreaking study here and “Cabin Fever.” Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 2 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Understand the impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on American writers and the abolitionist movement. See more on this topic here.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 1 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Consider the phenomenal – century-long – success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the lore surrounding its hold on the American imagination in the lead up to the Civil War. See also Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mightier than the Sword.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 5 of 5 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ch 17-end. Consider your take on the troublesome ending when Hester returns to Boston? See Baym and Bercovitch. Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 4 of 5 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ch 17-end. Revisit Hawthorne’s poetics of “multiple choice.” See also episode 2.2. Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 3 of 5 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ch 17-end. Why does so much American art focus on trials, judgment, or justice? Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 2 of 5 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ch 17-end.  What dangers do rhetorical fluency pose in a democratic republic? See also Barlowe and Gilmore. Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 1 of 5 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ch 17-end.  Notice the turn to dialogue and drama as the former lovers meet in the forest in Chapter 17. Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley