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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828751503321

Autore

Maddox Lucy

Titolo

Removals : nineteenth-century American literature and the politics of Indian affairs / / Lucy Maddox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772586-4

1-280-44092-9

0-19-536158-X

1-60129-818-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

810.935809034

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Indians of North America - Politics and government - History - 19th century

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Indians in literature

Canon (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Civilization or Extinction?; 2 Writing and Silence: Melville; 3 Saving the Family: Hawthorne, Child, and Sedgwick; 4 Points of Departure: Fuller, Thoreau, and Parkman; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Addresses the relationship between the national debates on the establishment of a federal Indian policy in the first half of the 19th century and the simultaneous debates on the establishment of an unofficial policy governing the production of an American literature.