Abstract

Author:
Xinru Hao

Doi: 10.26480/wllcs.01.2022.12.14

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel translated and published worldwide. As the best-selling novel in the 19th century America, it sets off broad thinking about slavery in the United States. Employing the “cabin” in the title of the novel, Stowe shows us the importance of this spatial image. With the “spatial turn” of literary criticism in the 20th century, both novelists and critics pay more attention to the role of spatial forms and its narrative function. Therefore, it is worthy reexamining this important spatial form in this classical novel written in the 19th century. This paper will apply Chinese Scholar Long Diyong’s theory of Spatial Narrative, try to analyze the role of the spatial form “cabin”, and provide a new perspective in studying Stowe’s attitude toward the slavery, expose the essence of slavery, and furtherly discuss the theme of love throughout the novel