Romantic Indians Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830

by Fulford, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780199273379
• ISBN10: 0199273375
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Romantic Indiansconsiders the views 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. It is, therefore, also a book about exploration, empire, and the forms of writing that exploration and empire gave rise to--in particular the form we have come to call Romanticism. Among the authors discussed are Wordsworth, Hemans, Coleridge, and the Native Americans Copway, Tanner, and Norton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
Abbreviations	ix
I. FACTUAL WRITING
1. Romantic Indians and their Inventors	3	(38)
2. Historians and Philosophes	41	(8)
3. War Stories and Tales from the Frontier	49	(11)
4. Travellers' Tales and Traders' Memoirs	60	(22)
5. Indian Bones and What White Men Saw in Them	82	(19)
II. BRITISH FICTION
6. Indians and the Politics of Romance	101	(19)
7. Native Patriarchs—Pantisocracy and the Americanization of Wales	120	(21)
8. The Indian Song	141	(15)
9. Shamans and Superstitions: 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'	156	(10)
10. White Men and Indian Women	166	(17)
11. Political Indians	183	(11)
12. The Mission to Civilize and the Colonial Romance	194	(17)
III. NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING
13. John Norton/Teyoninholcarawen	211	(13)
14. A Son of the Forest: William Apess	224	(12)
15. Captive, Campaigner, Conman: John Hunter	236	(19)
16. Peter Jones/Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By	255	(9)
17. John Tanner/Shaw-shaw-wa-be-nase	264	(16)
18. Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh/George Copway	280	(13)
Bibliography	293	(18)
Index	311