Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin: nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe

In the beginning, a photograph

Introduction: the personal become the project

1. "To woman...I say depart!" ; The plantation literary tradition, the emergent anti-uncle Tom novel, and gender

2. Sanctified by wealth and whiteness ; Mother-saviors

and not

in the urban North

3. Justified by mother's milk ; Mammies and mistress figures in proslavery fiction's plantation south

4. The background that belies the myth ; The historical record that helps explain the preponderance of nonslaveholding proslavery women authors

5. Mothering the other; othering the mother ; An African American woman novelist battles slavery and Uncle Tom

6. Still playing with fire ; Perpetuation and refutation of the plantation romance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by women.