ABSTRACT
Uncle Tom’s Cabin underwent a prolonged eclipse during the tumultuous decades that witnessed the Depression, the Second World War, and the beginning of the Cold War. Fewer than 10 new editions were issued between 1930 and 1959. The year 1960, however, marked a new turning-point in the checkered career of the novel. At least 15 new editions appeared in the 1960s, and each of the two following decades saw the publication of over half-a-dozen new editions. New editions numbered almost twenty in the 1990s, and over a dozen have been issued in the first five years of the twenty-first century. This chapter addresses the changing fortunes of Stowe’s novel since 1930.
