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Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.702 (Fall 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Wyn Kelley 
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  21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  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.