Nineteenth-Century Representations of Native Americans

Nineteenth-Century Representations of Native Americans Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • The Correlation between Societal Attitudes and Those of American Authors in the Depiction of American Indians, 1607-1860
  • The Puritan Myth and the Indian in the Early American Novel
  • American Indian Persistence and Resurgence
• Criticism: Native American History
  • Catharine Sedgwick's ‘Recital’ of the Pequot War
  • 'A Terrible Sickness Among Them': Smallpox and Stories of the Frontier
• Criticism: The Indians Of The Northeast
  • Cooper's Wyandotté: The Indian as Split Personality
  • ‘The Red Face of Man,’ the Penobscot Indian, and a Conflict of Interest in Thoreau's Maine Woods
  • Fire-Water in the Frontier Romance: James Fenimore Cooper and ‘Indian Nature’
• Criticism: The Indians Of The Southeast
  • William Gilmore Simms and the American Indian
  • James Nelson Barker's Pocahontas: The Theatre and the Indian Question
  • Colonization and the American Indian in Simms's ‘Lucas de Ayllon’
• Criticism: The Indians Of The West
  • Mark Twain and the American Indian
  • The Indian Matter of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: From Fact to Fiction
  • Frederic Remington's Anglo-Saxon Indian
• Criticism: Indian Hater Fiction
  • Nineteenth-Century Indian Hater Fiction: A Paradigm for Racism
  • Indians and Indian-Hating in Edgar Huntly and The Confidence Man
  • Indian-Hater, Wild Man: Melville's Confidence-Man
• Criticism: The Indian As Exhibit
  • Simplifying the Native American: Wild West Shows Exhibit the ‘Indian’
  • The Indian in the Museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and Authentic Manhood
• Further Reading