A new historicist and comparative study of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country

Abstract

This research work undertakes a New Historicist reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (UTC) and Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country (CBC). In the light of the New Historicist literary theory, this comparative study analyses the significant historical, socio-political, and cultural influences that stimulated the production of these two literary artefacts. This present work also reveals the impact of Stowe and Paton’s personal experiences and mindsets on their literary style and approach in the above-cited novels. Based on the New Historicist theoretical formulations