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The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects

Paperback • 2000 • English

The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects

By Renée L. Bergland

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About the book

Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did Charles Brocken Brown, Washington Irving, Samuel Woodworth, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others who followed. During the late 19th and early 20th c...Show more

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9780874519440

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects

Format

Paperback

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