The "savage sounds" of Christian translation: missionaries confront the limits of universalism in early America -- Learning to write Algonquian letters: the indigenous place of language philosophy in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world -- Indigenous cosmologies of the early eighteenth-century Atlantic world -- Imperial millennialism and the battle for American Indian souls -- The nature of Indian words in the rise of Anglo-American nativism -- Franco-Catholic communication and Indian alliance in the Seven Years War -- Unruly empiricisms and linguistic sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian vocabulary project -- Indigenous metaphors and the philosophy of history in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales -- Coda: remembered forms of a literary nation
Summary
Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed February 23, 2018)
