Removals - Nineteenth Century American Literature Politics of Indian Affairs

Zusatztext `This provocative book uses recent theory while keeping a critical eye on that theory's shortcomings.'American Literary Scholarship Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Removals addresses the relationship between the national debates on the establishment of a federal Indian policy in the first half of the nineteenth century and the simultaneous debates on the establishment of an unofficial policy governing the production of an American literature. Maddox rereads the work of writers including Herman Melville, Catherine Sedgewick, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Francis Parkman within the context of the public debates on `the Indian question' in order to illustrate the ways in which they respond to the political, social, and aesthetic issues raised by these debates.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Maddox, Lucy (Associate Professor of English Maddox, Maddox Lucy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.1991
• EAN: 9780195069310
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506931-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, English, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous