Uncle Tom's Cabin[汤姆叔叔的小屋]

Firstpublishedin1859,andsetineighteenth-centuryNewport,RhodeIsland,TheMinister'sWooingisahistoricalnovelanddomesticcomedythatsatirizesCalvinism,celebratingitsintellectualandmoralintegritywhilecritiquingitsrigidtheology.MaryScudderliveswithherwidowedmotherinamodestmiddle-classhome.Dr.Hopkins,aCalvinistministerwhoboardswiththem,isdedicatedtohelpingtheslavesarrivingatNewportandcallsfortheabolitionofslavery.ThepiousMaryadmireshimbutisalsoinlovewiththepassionatebutskepticalJamesMarvynwho,hungryforadventure,joinsthecrewofashipsettingsailforexoticdestinations.WhenJamesispresumedlostatsea,Maryfearsforhissoul,andconsentstomarrythegoodDoctor.Withimportantinsightsonslavery,history,andgender,aswellascharactersbasedonhistoricalfigures,TheMinister'sWooingis,asSusanHarrisnotesinherIntroduction,"anhistoricalnovel,likeHawthorne'sTheScarletLetterorCatharineSedgwick'sHopeLeslieorANewEnglandTale;itisanattemptthroughfictiontocreateamoral,intellectual,andaffectivehistoryforNewEngland."