Title Romantic Indians : native Americans, British literature, and transatlantic culture 1756-1830 / Tim Fulford

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 318 pages) Contents Romantic Indians and their inventors -- Historians and philosophes -- War stories and tales from the frontier -- Travellers' tales and traders' memoirs -- Indian bones and what white men saw in them -- Indians and the politics of romance -- Native patriarchs : pantisocracy and the Americanization of Wales -- The Indian song -- Shamans and superstitions : The rime of the ancyent marinere -- White men and Indian women -- Political Indians -- The mission to civilize and the colonial romance -- John Norton/Teyoninhokarawen -- A son of the forest : William Apess -- Captive, campaigner, conman : John Hunter -- Peter Jones/Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by -- John Tanner/Shaw-shaw-wa-be-nase -- Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh/George Copway Summary Fulford considers the view that Britons, colonists and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since. He also describes exploration and empire and the writing this gave rise to Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Indians in literature. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- American influences. Romanticism -- Great Britain Indian authors -- North America -- Biography American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Indians of North America -- Wars. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Indians of North America -- Wars Indian authors American literature -- Indian authors English literature English literature -- American influences Indians in literature Romanticism Romantik Literatur Indianerbild Kulturkontakt North America Great Britain Indianer <Motiv> Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 1423768167 9781423768166 0199273375 9780199273379 9780191706332 0191706337

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