# Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1880. Mark Twain, ca. 1907. (Images courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction numbers, LC-USZ62-11212 and LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy negatives)].)

### Instructor(s)

Wyn Kelley

### MIT Course Number

21L.702

### As Taught In

Fall 2004

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Assignments: written with examples

## Course Description

This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

## Other Versions

## Other OCW Versions

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- 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece (Fall 2007)

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Wyn Kelley. 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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