Synopses & Reviews
Romantic Indians considers 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.
Review
"This is a groundbreaking work."--Margaret Russett, Studies in English Literature
Table of Contents
Section I: Factual Writing 1. Romantic Indians and their Inventors
2. Historians and Philosophes
3. War Stories and Tales from the Frontier
4. Traveller's Tales and Traders' Memoirs
5. Indian Bones and What White Men Saw in Them
Section II: British Fiction
6. Indians and the Politics of Romance
7. Native Patriarchs - Pantisocracy and the Americanization of Wales
8. The Indian Song
9. Shamans and Superstitions: 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'
10. White Men and Indian Women
11. Political Indians
12. The Mission to Civilize and the Colonial Romance
Section III: Indian and Hybrid Writing
13. John Norton/Teyoninhokarawen
14. A Son of the Forest: William Apess
15. Captive, Campaigner, Conman: John Hunter
16. Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By/Peter Jones
17. John Tanner/Shaw-shaw-wa-be-nase
18. Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh/George Kopway