Remembering to forget : Native American presences and the U.S. national consciousness in nineteenth-century Euro-American fiction
This thesis interrogates the part played by the figure of ‘the Indian’ in the formation of the U.S. national consciousness as reflected in the nineteenth-century fictional works of James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, Lydia Maria Child, Helen Hunt Jackson and Herman Melville. I propose tha...
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Durham University
2016
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