Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Order Description
For your second research project that will be due in Week 14, you will be writing another brief researched essay that will address one aspect of your reading in the
second half of the course. Choose one of the following two options.

1. Using Angela Sorby’s introduction to her book entitled Schoolroom Poets as a critical lens, analyze the poetry of Whittier, Longfellow, and Bryant. Evaluate Sorby’s
claims and explore their validity regarding the works of the Fireside poets.

2. Evaluate Uncle Tom’s Cabin using Jane Tompkins’s essay “Sentimental Power” as a critical lens. Explore Tompkins’s claims and use the novel to substantiate or
question those claims’ validity.

The essay by Sorby is available through Google books and Tompkins’s essay is available on the web using the full bibliographic citations below.

Your submission must be at least 1000 words in length, and it must incorporate at least one primary source (though in the first option you’ll obviously want to use
more) and at least three substantive secondary sources that come from the library databases (not websites). You should use proper MLA formatting, including heading,
parenthetical citations, and a works cited page. Your essay must be saved as a Word 97-03 document or as an RTF file. If it is not, it will be counted late and not
accepted.

Sorby, Angela. “Introduction: Learning by Heart.” Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917.Durham, New Hampshire: U of New
Hampshire P, 2005. xi-xlv.

Tompkins, Jane. “Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Politics of Literary History.” Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New
York: Oxford UP, 1985. 122-146.