Monthly Archives: March 2008

In Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Mr. Wilson is the owner of the bagging factory in which George Harris works. After George escapes, he encounters Mr. Wilson in a tavern, where ensues an argument in which Mr. Wilson tries to convince … Continue reading →

Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 “While my thought is undressed–I can make the distinction, but when I put them in the Gown,–they look alike, and numb.” Cited and discussed by Tim Morris in Philip G. Cohen’s Texts … Continue reading →

In a University of Nebraska copy of the 1852 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, part of the Lowenberg Collection, a reader used a stick pin to re-attach the illustration between pgs. 174 and 175 of volume 1. I would think … Continue reading →

Fuego soy apartado y espada puesta lejos.”–Don Quixote, Chap XIV, Ed. Murillo, 186-87 “I am distant fire and far-off sword.”–Trans. Edith Grossman 99. Ah, Marcela, the beautiful shepherdess who refuses Grisóstomo and rebukes Ambrosio, who wrongly blames her for his … Continue reading →

My job search has reached a milestone. Today, 11 March 2008, I signed a letter to accept a tenure-track position in Textual Editing and American Literature at Kent State University. This was what I hoped for when I abandoned my … Continue reading →

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: An Edition of the “National Era” Version, my dissertation, was at http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm. But it has moved. It is now at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm. The “2″ after www is discontinued. I wonder how long I will be … Continue reading →