ストーの『アンクル・トムの小屋』（1852）を中心に、
アメリカ文学における反奴隷制文学の系譜を考察。
19世紀半ばのルネサンス期に隆盛を迎えた「反奴隷制文学」の萌芽を
18世紀に見出し、ストーと同時代の作家・作品から、
アメリカ現代文学の始まり『ハックルベリ・フィンの冒険』までを検証する。
全文英文。

【目次内容】
Introduction
Part I : Precursors of Antislavery Literature
Chapter 1 David Walker’s Appeal: The Emergence of Antislavery Literature
Chapter 2 Richard Hildreth’s The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore:
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　A Precursory Antislavery Novel
Part II : Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Antislavery Novels
Chapter 3 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Women’s Power of Sentiments Based
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　on Christianity
Chapter 4 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Slave Narratives
Chapter 5 Dred: Legal Exploration in a Sentimental Novel
Chapter 6 The Minister’s Wooing: Slavery in a Historical Novel
Part III: Antislavery Literature after Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chapter 7 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 8 William Wells Brown’s Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom
Chapter 10 Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
Chapter 11 Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig
Chapter 12 Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Part IV: …
Introduction
Part I : Precursors of Antislavery Literature
Chapter 1 David Walker’s Appeal: The Emergence of Antislavery Literature
Chapter 2 Richard Hildreth’s The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore:A Precursory Antislavery Novel
Part II : Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Antislavery Novels
Chapter 3 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Women’s Power of Sentiments Based on Christianity
Chapter 4 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Slave Narratives
Chapter 5 Dred: Legal Exploration in a Sentimental Novel
Chapter 6 The Minister’s Wooing: Slavery in a Historical Novel
Part III: Antislavery Literature after Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chapter 7 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 8 William Wells Brown’s Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom
Chapter 10 Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
Chapter 11 Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig
Chapter 12 Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Part IV: Antislavery Literature after the Civil War
Chapter 13 Lydia Maria Child’s A Romance of the Republic
Chapter 14 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Conclusion