Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature
(Part of the Native Americans of the Northeast Series)
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An old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father. According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558496319
ISBN13:9781558496316
Release Date:April 2008
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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