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The tutor'd mind : Indian missionary-writers in antebellum America / Bernd...
Author(s):
Peyer, Bernd.
Title:
The tutor’d mind : Indian missionary-writers in antebellum America / Bernd C. Peyer.
Publisher:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1997.
Physical Description:
x, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Native Americans of the Northeast
Contents:
The Indian writer and the colonial situation -- Forest diplomats, praying Indians, and savage scholars: Seventeenth-century beginnings -- Samson Occom and the vision of a New England christian Indian policy -- William Apess, Pequot-Mashpee insurrectionist of the removal era -- Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee betrayal -- George Copway, Canadian Ojibwa methodist and romantic cosmopolite -- The transition of American Indian literature from salvationism to modernity.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-392) and index.
ISBN:
1558490981 (cloth : alk. paper)
155849099X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s):
American literature --Indian authors --History and criticism.
American literature --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --History and criticism.
American literature --19th century --History and criticism.
Christian literature, American --History and criticism.
Indians of North America --New England --Historiography.
Missionaries --New England --Historiography.
Protestantism and literature.
Missionaries in literature.
Indians in literature.
Location:
Reading Room - Pequot Collection
Call Number:
PEQUOT PS 153 .I52 P49 1997
Number of Items:
1
Status:
Not Charged
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