The Savage and Modern Self : North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Indians and the Construction of Britishness in the Early Eighteenth Century -- 2 The Indian as Cultural Critic: Shaping the British Self -- 3 Captivity Narratives and Colonialism -- 4 Novel Indians: Tsonnonthouan and the Commodification of Culture -- 5 Becoming Indians: Sentiment and the Hybrid British Subject -- 6 Native North American Material Culture in the British Imaginary -- Conclusion: "Pen-and-Ink Work" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Savage and Modern Selfexamines the representation of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain.

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