| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe. By Joy Jordan-Lake. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. xviii, 204 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8265-1475-8. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8265-1476-6.)

Joy Jordan-Lake's Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin provides a thorough account of nineteenth-century plantation romances written by women in reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Jordan-Lake suggests that Mary H. Eastman's Aunt Phillis' Cabin (1852), Maria J. McIntosh's The Lofty and the Lowly (1853), and other anti-Tom novels appear to attack patriarchy but ultimately reinforce all "three primary buttresses of slavery: racial, gender, and economic oppression" (p. xxii). As Jordan-Lake shows, images of slave culture made their way from Uncle Tom's Cabin, through plantation novels, into twentieth-century fiction and beyond. The result is a useful corrective to academic discussions that sometimes turn Uncle Tom's Cabin itself into a Southern romance.

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