Pondering a big one...

28 June 2022: It's a heck of a thing to take Uncle Tom's Cabin and wrestle it into the entry I need for my book. We're talking maybe 2000 words (maybe a bit longer) about one of the most sprawling, controversial, messy, and important books (with a complicated critical legacy) in American literary history. There is some breathing room in knowing there will be a separate entry on Stowe, her life, and her other works, but now, in the early stages of deep dive into criticism that I do for every one of these, I am reminding myself that in an ocean this deep (to sustain a metaphor), that dive is going to be more limited.