Pocahontas : [electronic resource] the evolution of an American narrative / Robert S. Tilton.
By: Tilton, Robert S.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 83. Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994Description: xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521461898; 9780521461894; 0521469597 (pbk.); 9780521469593 (pbk.).Subject(s): American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century | Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century | Pocahontas, d. 1617 -- In literature | Women and literature -- United States | Indian women in literature | Indians in literature | Pocahontas, ca. 1595-1617 -- Legends -- History and criticism | Pocahontas, ca. 1595-1617 -- In literature | English literature | United StatesDDC classification: 813.009/352042 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents | Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
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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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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