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Romantic Indians Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 Fulford, Tim Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University Print publication date: 2006 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927337-9
6 Indians and the Politics of Romance doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273379.003.0006 Tim Fulford Abstract: This chapter describes Indians as represented in 18th-century novels and political prose. Writers such as Charlotte Smith, Robert Bage, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Spence, and Thomas Paine are analysed. Keywords: novels, Charlotte Smith, Robert Bage, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Spence, Thomas Paine,

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PART I FACTUAL WRITING

1 Romantic Indians and their Inventors

2 Historians and Philosophes

3 War Stories and Tales from the Frontier

4 Travellers' Tales and Traders' Memoirs

5 Indian Bones and What White Men Saw in Them

PART 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

PART III NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING

13 John Norton/Teyoninhokarawen

14 A Son of the Forest: William Apess

15 Captive, Campaigner, Conman: John Hunter

16 Peter Jones/Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By

17 John Tanner/Shaw-shaw-wa-be-nase

18 Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh/George Copway

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