本研讨班课程探讨两位十九世纪美国畅销作家，他们关于蓄奴的作品广受主流读者好评。随后，史托夫人所著的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom's Cabin）和马克吐温所著的《顽童流浪记》（The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn），为人奉为神圣，也遭到谩骂；为人欣喜阅读，也遭取缔。不管读者抱持什么样的政治、文化立场，不管读者是是个人或团体，这两本书都受到不一的评价。This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.
译注：
1.《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，志文，2000年，http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010140379
2.《顽童流浪记》，小知堂，2001年，http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010148652
