Book Review: The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint. Princeton University Press, 2009

Proposing 'the centrality of the Indian-both imaged and actual-to our own understanding of [the] changing transatlantic world'(p. 2), she first establishes the Romantic trope of the vanishing Indian as it appeared following American independence. Flint closely examines the receptions of Ge...

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Published inLiterature & History Vol. 19; no. 2; p. 105
Main Author Noel, Rebecca R
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London Sage Publications Ltd 01.10.2010
Subjects
Catlin, George
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
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Summary:Proposing 'the centrality of the Indian-both imaged and actual-to our own understanding of [the] changing transatlantic world'(p. 2), she first establishes the Romantic trope of the vanishing Indian as it appeared following American independence. Flint closely examines the receptions of George Catlin's 1840s British exhibition of his own paintings plus native artifacts and performers and of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tours from 1887-1904. Delicate readings of slippery texts will impress literary scholars, while historians will appreciate the book's temporal and cultural scope and its broad range of prosaic and canonical sources.
ISSN:0306-1973
2050-4594