When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
Please note: Some of the Bible verses, those that are cited as appearing in the first paragraph of a chapter, are not included in all reproductions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- Lindley Murray, English Grammar (1.2)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (10.16)
- Bible, Genesis 16 and Philippians 1:10 (11.58)
- Bible, Genesis 9:25 (12.70)
- Francis Auguste Rene, In Atala; or the Love and Constantcy of Two Savages in the Desert (14.1)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (15.12)
- John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (15.12)
- Charles Rollin, The Ancient History (15.12)
- Thomas Scott, Scott’s Family Bible (15.12)
- Sidney Edwards Morse, The Cerographic Atlas of the United States (15.13)
- Timothy Flint, Recollections of the Last Ten Years (15.13)
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (16.106
- Bible, Psalm 73 (17.44)
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (18.41)
- Thomas Moore,"Weep Not For Those" (26.1)
- Bible, Matthew 25:6 (26.127)
- John Quincy Adams, last words (27.1)
- Bible, Luke 10:21 (27.49)
- Bible, John 11:25 (27.27)
- Bible, John 11 (27.65)
- Bible, Matthew25:31-32 (28.79)
- Bible, Matthew 25:41-45 (28.80)
- Bible, Matthew 18:6 (30.42)
- Bible, Habbakuk 1:13 (31.1)
- Bible, Psalm 74:20 (32.1)
- Bible, Matthew 11:28 (32.66)
- Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:1 (33.1)
- Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (35.1)
- John Philpot Curran (37.1)
- Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:57 (38)
- Isaac Watts, "On my journey home," hymn (38.32-34)
- Bible, Proverbs 4:19 (39.1)
- William Cullen Bryant, untitled poem (40.1)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 1, scene 1, lines 115-116 (42.4)