The Savage and Modern Self

The Savage and Modern Self
Author: Robbie Richardson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 148750344X
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The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism, "Britishness," and, ultimately, the "modern self" over the course of the century. Considering the ways in which British writers represented contact between Britons and "Indians," both at home and abroad, the author shows how these sites of contact moved from a self-affirmation of British authority earlier in the century, to a mutual corruption, to a desire to appropriate perceived traits of "Indianess." Looking at texts exclusively produced in Britain, The Savage and Modern Self reveals that "the modern" finds definition through imagined scenes of cultural contact. By the end of the century, Richardson concludes, the hybrid Indian-Brition emerging in literature and visual culture exemplifies a form of modern, British masculinity.

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan
Author: Samson Occom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0195346882
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This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States. His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.

Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans

Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans
Author: Margaret Szasz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806138619
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"In this first book-length examination of the SSPCK, Margaret Connell Szasz explores the origins of the Scottish Society's policies of cultural colonialism and their influence on two disparate frontiers. Drawing intriguing parallels between the treatment of Highland Scots and Native Americans, she incorporates multiple perspectives on the cultural encounter, juxtaposing the attitudes of Highlanders and Lowlanders, English colonials and Native peoples, while giving voice to the Society's pupils and graduates, its schoolmasters, and religious leaders."--BOOK JACKET.

Invented indian

Invented indian
Author: James A. Clifton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 402
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ISBN: 1412826594
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English Literature in Eighteenth Century

English Literature in Eighteenth Century
Author: Lopa Sanyal
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2006
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9788183561365
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This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of authors. An excellent book, which will serve as a sound and lively introduction for students, and also will, makes and impressive and substantial contribution to scholarly study of the English-century Literature. Contents: The Eighteenth Century: Pseudo-Classicism and The Beginnings of Modern Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Thought, Type of Literature in Eighteenth Century, Drama in Eighteenth Century, Primitivism in Eighteenth Century, Novel in Eighteenth Century, Poem in Eighteenth Century, Periodicals in Eighteenth Century, John Evelyn (1620-1706), John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Thomas Otway (1652-1685), John Dennis (1657- 1734), Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), Matthew Prior (1664-1721), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Richard Steele (1672-1729), Edward Young (1683-1785), John Gay (1685- 1732), Allan Ramsay (1685-1758), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), James Thomson (1700-1748), Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Richard Hurd (1720-1808), William Collins (1721-1759), Mark Akenside (1721- 1770), Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), Christopher Smart (1722- 1771), Thomas Warton (1728-1790), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Charles Churchill (1731-1764), William Cowper (1731-1800), James Beattie (1735-1803), James Macpherson (1736-1796), Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), James Boswell (1740-1795), Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) (1741-1821), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), George Crabbe (1754-1832), Robert Burns (1759-1796), Minor Authors.

American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840

American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840
Author: Stephanie Pratt
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0806188847
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Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be “Indian.” Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light. During the eighteenth century, the British allied themselves with Indian tribes to counter the American colonial rebellion. In response, British artists produced a large volume of work focusing on American Indians. Although these works depicted their subjects as either noble or ignoble savages, they also represented Indians as active participants in contemporary society. Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, where Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage. But Pratt also argues that to view these images as mere illustrations of historical events or individuals would be reductive. As works of art they contain formal characteristics and ideological content that diminish their documentary value.

Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
Author: Tracy L. Brown
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816530270
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"Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico investigates the tactics that Pueblo Indians used to negotiate Spanish colonization and the ways in which the negotiation of colonial power impacted Pueblo individuals and communities"--Provided by publisher.

British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Stephen Foster
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191662747
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Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand various reorderings of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has also become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between "settlers", the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally, and attempts to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The central theme of this volume is the question "to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British?" The contributors, some of the leading scholars in their respective fields, strive to answer this question in various social, political, religious, and historical contexts.