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Romantic Indians - Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 (Hardcover)
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Romantic Indians - Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 (Hardcover)
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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 representation that
exploration and empire gave rise to-in particular the form we have
come to call Romanticism, in which 'Indians' appear everywhere. It
is not too much to say that Romanticism would not have taken the
form it did without the complex and ambiguous image of Indians that
so intrigued both the writers and their readers. Most of the poets
of the Romantic canon wrote about them-not least Southey,
Wordsworth, and Coleridge; so did many whom we have only recently
brought back to attention-including Bowles, Hemans, and Barbauld.
Yet Indians' formative role in the aesthetics and politics of
Romanticism has rarely been considered. Tim Fulford aims to bring
that formative role to our attention, to show that the images of
native peoples that Romantic writers received from colonial
administrators, politicians, explorers, and soldiers helped shape
not only these writers' idealizations of 'savages' and tribal life,
but also their depictions of nature, religion, and rural society.
The romanticization of Indians soon affected the way that real
native peoples were treated and described by generations of
travellers who had already, before reaching the Canadian forest or
the mid-western plains, encountered the literary Indians produced
back in Britain. Moreover, in some cases Native Americans, writing
in English, turned the romanticization of Indians to their own
ends. This book highlights their achievement in doing so-featuring
fascinating discussions of several little-known but brilliant
Native American writers.
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