CREATIVE WORKS OF HARRIET BEECHER-STOWE IN THE PERCEPTION OF K.I. CHUKOVSKY
The article deals with the specific features of the K.I. Chukovsky’ sperception of creative works of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. The material for the analysis was the literary-critical works of K.I. Chukovsky dedicated to the works of G. Beecher-Stowe, as well as the works of researchers, in which the literary understanding of the artistic heritage of the American writeris presented. Her creative work, in the opinion of K.I. Chukovsky, is important for characterizing of the literary tendencies of the middle and the end of the 19th century; moral and aesthetic issues raised in the work of Beecher Stowe influenced the national cultural tradition. K.I. Chukovsky in his article «Beecher Stowe and Her Book» (1966), described the artistic originality of the early stories of the American writer and her novel «Uncle Tom's Cabin». Reflecting on the early prose works of the American writer, K.I. Chukovsky called thempoorely artistic in their expression. Beecher Stowe's novel «Uncle Tom's Cabin» broughther the world success and recognition and had a great influence on culture and politics, as well as supported and popularized the abolitionist movement. An important artistic discovery of Beecher Stowe was the way of presenting the material, which made it possible to transfereasily the novel into a dramatic genre for staging on the theatrical stage. K.I. Chukovsky called the civil position of the American writer as religious and conciliatory, noting the humanistic pathos of her protest against slavery. Similar moral and aesthetic ideas were developed in the A.I. Kuprin’s «The Pit», which K.I. Chukovsky called the «Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin».