Sentimental Novels (Book Guide) - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman, Mary: A Fiction, the Wide, Wide World (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 44. Chapters: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, Mary: A Fiction, The Wide, Wide World, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, The Coquette, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, The Romance of the Forest, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Amelia, Clarissa, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Man of Feeling, Sentimental novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, The Fool of Quality, The Italian, Domestic realism, Siegwart, eine Klostergeschichte, The Lamplighter, A Sicilian Romance, A Child of Sorrow. Excerpt: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters-both fellow slaves and slave owners-revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." One million copies of the book were sold in Great Britain. The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady...