Date Thesis Awarded
5-2014
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Melanie Dawson
Committee Members
Elizabeth Barnes
Melvin Ely
Abstract
Anti Tom novels comprise a seldom-studied body of literature that responded directly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and devised arguments to defend the system of slavery. This study undertakes the explication of the arguments of several of these novels, which center of two related ideologies: masculine responsibility and the economy of sympathy.
Recommended Citation
Pace, Eleanor A., ""As the Work had its origin in love": Masculine Responsibility and the Economy of Sympathy in Anti-Tom Novels, 1852-1854" (2014). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 62.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/62
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