native Americans, British literature, and transatlantic culture 1756-1830 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Tim Fulford.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 318 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Romantic Indians.
International Standard Book Number
0199273375
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- American influences.
Indians in literature.
Romanticism-- Great Britain.
Écrivains indiens d'Amérique-- Amérique du Nord, Biographies.
Indiens d'Amérique-- Amérique du Nord-- Guerres.
Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine-- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.