Matches inside:
At the time, I was giving my first lecture course in the American Renaissance—concentrated exclusively on Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman—and although Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written in exactly the same period, and although it is probably the most influential book ever written by an American, I would never have dreamed of including it on my reading list. (122) For Wexler, both Tompkins and Douglas exhibit a similar readerly response to Stowe’s novel, or more particularly, an identical way of describing what reading entails and the effects it has.