Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750–1850: The Indian Atlantic

Cambridge University Press, 6/4/2009
EAN 9780521888486, ISBN10: 0521888484

Hardcover, 276 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

Investigating a transatlantic culture that flourished in Great Britain and North America between 1750 and 1850, this collection explains how complex relationships between Britons, Native Americans and Anglo-Americans shaped the literature and history of the age. This shaping role has all too often been ignored or misconstrued by literary critics and historians. The book's chapters examine literary texts, travel accounts, traders' memoirs, historical documents, captivity narratives, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and visual arts. Its contributors chart the rise and fall of mixed communities living on the margins of white and Indian settlements, examining the role of 'cultural brokers' who used their expertise in both white and Indian cultures to mediate between them.

Introduction
the Indian Atlantic Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings
1. The site of the struggle
colonialism, violence, and the captive body Robbie Richardson
2. 'I shall tear off their scalps, and make cups of their skulls'
American Indians in the eighteenth-century British press Troy Bickham
3. Savages and men of feeling
North American Indians in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of the World Lise Sorenson
4. Sir William Johnson's interest
Indian land and transatlantic power Alan Taylor
5. Representatives and representation
Southern Indians in eighteenth-century Britain Stephanie Pratt
6. 'And the truest schools for civilisation are the forests of America'
John O'Keeffe's The Basket Maker and Robert Bage's Hermsprong Helen Carr
7. Theory and experience
Peter Fidler and the Transatlantic Indian Ted Binnema
8. The sound of the shaman
scientists and Indians in the Arctic Tim Fulford
9. William Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, and the poetics of American Indian removal Joel Pace
10. 'The Nobleness of the Hunter's Deeds'
British Romanticism, Christianity, and Ojibwa culture in George Copway's Recollections of a Forest Life Kevin Hutchings
11. The savage tour
Indian performance across the Atlantic Joshua David Bellin
Index.