Abstract
Rewritings of American History in the Paratext of Uncle Tom's Cabin The evolution of the paratextual material of a novel reflects the way each generation approaches its texts. Beyond the changing criteria of literary judgment, the paratext of some works also reveals the relationship between a society and its past. Because of its topic and its almost uninterrupted presence on the American market, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a case in point. This paper examines the way the history of slavery, of the Civil War and of Reconstruction is re-read and re-written in the prefaces, introductions, and editorial notes to various American editions of the novel.
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