Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature

by Laura L. Mielke

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