Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs

by Lucy Maddox

2020-11-24 16:38:49

This book resituates some familiar nineteenth-century texts within the context of public debates about the place of American Indians in the civil and cultural institutions of the new American nation. Rereading texts by Melville, Hawthorne, Child, Sed... Read more
This book resituates some familiar nineteenth-century texts within the context of public debates about the place of American Indians in the civil and cultural institutions of the new American nation. Rereading texts by Melville, Hawthorne, Child, Sedgwick, Thoreau, Fuller, and Parkman, Maddox demonstrates the pervasiveness of the anxieties produced by discussion of "the Indian question" and shows how extensively they influenced the production and reception of writing in the first half of the century. Less

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File size8.54 X 5.83 X 0.91 in
Print pages216
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 30, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195069310
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DR LUCY MADDOX is a consultant clinical psychologist and writer. After 13 years' experience in the NHS she now works in a mix of third sector roles. She works with children, teenagers and adults in Br...

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