Table of Contents:
  • Figuring America
  • The romantic Indian
  • "Brought to the zenith of civilization": Indians in England in the 1840s
  • Sentiment and anger: British women writers and Native Americans
  • Is the Indian an American?
  • Savagery and nationalism: Native Americans and popular fiction
  • Indians and the politics of gender
  • Indians and missionaries
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West and English identity
  • Indian frontiers
  • Indians, modernity, and history.