![]() ![]() Numbers play an important role in this novel. ![]() Professors have taken up Beloved like a cause and have elucidated it so profusely-along with Twain’s great work, only The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, and Waldenhave amassed larger bodies of scholarship-that its place among the handful of American classics is assured. The following paper deals with the significance of numbers in Toni Morrisons Beloved. “When a writer is supported by a sufficient body of scholarship,” wrote the critic Yvor Winters, “a very little philosophical elucidation will suffice to establish him in the scholarly world as a writer whose greatness is self-evident.” And that is pretty much what has happened with Morrison. ![]() Its next closest rival, The Great Gatsby, has yet to reach 700 almost nine decades after its first edition. It has been the subject of more than 700 items listed in the MLA International Bibliography-reviews, essays, chapters, monographs, Ph.D. Or, at least Toni Morrison’s Belovedmust be considered the most important American novel in over a century if critical and academic attention is the gauge. Knopf, 1987Cloth hardcover, First Edition so stated on the copyright pageBoldly signed by Toni. First UK edition (first printing), issued the same year as the. Although Sethe lives there as a free woman, she is held prisoner by memories of the trauma of. ![]() The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. Twenty-five years ago this fall the most important American novel since Huckleberry Finnwas published. BELOVED a novel by Toni Morrison New York: Alfred A. Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ![]()
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