| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 202 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Civilization or extinction? -- Writing and silence: Melville -- Saving the family: Hawthorne, Child, and Sedgwick -- Points of departure: Fuller, Thoreau, and Parkman |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Literature Related to Politics |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Indians in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Canon (Literature)
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Indians in literature
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government
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Politics and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195361582 |
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019536158X |
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9780195069310 |
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0195069315 |
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1280440929 |
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9781280440922 |
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9786610440924 |
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6610440921 |
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