Berserk violence, racial vengeance, and settler colonialism in American writing from Franklin to Melville /
This text studies the literary and cultural tradition of the 'Indian Hater' in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : vengeance became my darling theme : the Indian hater in American writing, 1760-1860
- A spirit vengeful, unrelenting, and ferocious : *Edgar Huntly* and the genealogy of Indian haters
- "American" stories : the Indian haters of James Hall and John Neal
- From legend to literature : heroic haters, real and invented
- Hut literature : Robert Montgomery Bird's Nathan Slaughter
- Liberal colonialism and the disavowal of Indian hating
- Herman Melville and the metafictions of Indian hating
- Coda : Wetzel redivivus : Zane Grey and the juvenilia of empire.