Tilton, Robert S.

Pocahontas : the evolution of an American narrative / [electronic resource] Robert S. Tilton. - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 83 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.

Miscegenation and the Pocahontas narrative in colonial and federalist America -- The Pocahontas narrative in post-Revolution America -- The Pocahontas narrative in the era of the romantic Indian -- John Gadsby Chapman's Baptism of Pocahontas -- The figure of Pocahontas in sectionalist propaganda -- Index.

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Pocahontas, d. 1617 --In literature.
Pocahontas, ca. 1595-1617 --Legends--History and criticism.
Pocahontas, ca. 1595-1617 --In literature.


American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--18th century.
Women and literature--United States.
Indian women in literature.
Indians in literature.

English literature United States

PS173.I6 / T55 1994

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