Suffering, Healing, and Relationship: Innovations in Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship

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Notes

¹ In a July 2020 blog post, Wesley Raabe detailed connections he began within Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Covid-19 pandemic. Like numerous academics, including those in this special issue, he writes, “I had not previously been arrested by the mentions of yellow fever or cholera in the Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but the systematic work at annotating (and our COVID-19 moment) has changed me as a reader.” His blog post, titled “Epidemics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin: cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis” serves as a good starting point for teachers and scholars interested in pursuing further work in the field of medical humanism. Kathleen Downes’s essay in this special issue discusses cholera in Dred, and I suggest this in particular is a burgeoning field in Stowe Studies that deserves further attention.