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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fulford, Tim, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.