Romantic Indians : native Americans, British literature, and transatlantic culture 1756-1830 /
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.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of 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.