Book contents
- Frontmatter
- General Introduction
- PART ONE INVENTING THE AMERICAN NOVEL
- Introduction: inventing the American novel
- 1 Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel
- 2 Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US
- 3 Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic
- 4 The novel in the antebellum book market
- 5 American land, American landscape, American novels
- 6 Cooper and the idea of the Indian
- 7 The nineteenth-century historical novel
- 8 Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance
- 9 Melville and the novel of the sea
- 10 Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel
- 11 Manhood and the early American novel
- 12 Sentimentalism
- 13 Supernatural novels
- 14 Imagining the South
- 15 Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel
- 16 The early African American novel
- PART TWO REALISM, PROTEST, ACCOMMODATION
- PART THREE MODERNISM AND BEYOND
- PART FOUR CONTEMPORARY FORMATIONS
- A selected bibliography
- Index
6 - Cooper and the idea of the Indian
from PART ONE - INVENTING THE AMERICAN NOVEL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- General Introduction
- PART ONE INVENTING THE AMERICAN NOVEL
- Introduction: inventing the American novel
- 1 Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel
- 2 Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US
- 3 Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic
- 4 The novel in the antebellum book market
- 5 American land, American landscape, American novels
- 6 Cooper and the idea of the Indian
- 7 The nineteenth-century historical novel
- 8 Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance
- 9 Melville and the novel of the sea
- 10 Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel
- 11 Manhood and the early American novel
- 12 Sentimentalism
- 13 Supernatural novels
- 14 Imagining the South
- 15 Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel
- 16 The early African American novel
- PART TWO REALISM, PROTEST, ACCOMMODATION
- PART THREE MODERNISM AND BEYOND
- PART FOUR CONTEMPORARY FORMATIONS
- A selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
A map of North America first published in 1715 shows a continent where European settlements intermingle with indigenous powers. Running down the eastern seaboard, and bounded by the Sea of the British Empire (that is, the Atlantic Ocean), are the colonies of New England, New York, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Iroquois country is west of New York. Further west, large territories bear the names of New France and Louisiana, while to the west and south lay New Mexico, New Spain, and “Apaches de Navaio.” A region identified as New Britain or Eskimaux lies to the north. Interspersed with the larger colonial and native powers are some smaller territories and less familiar place names. New Denmark and New Ultra appear at the upper edge of the map on Buttons Bay, just north of New North Wales and northeast of “The Bogs Morasses & Lakes of the Assinopovals.” The “Kikapous” and other tribes of the northern plains appear west of the Great Lakes. “Ilinese” country separates New France from Louisiana, while New Scotland divides New Foundland from New England. The region of northern California claimed by Francis Drake in 1578 is identified as New Albion, while California itself appears as a large island separated from the mainland by the Gulf of California and the Red Sea. East of the Gulf of California, and immediately north of Apaches de Navaio, is “Great Teguia.” Still further north and merging into “Parts Unknown” is “Mozeemleck Country,” based on a description from the Baron Lahontan, and said to include “many villages.” This is an image of North America as a mixture of the familiar, the less familiar, the unknown, and the fantastic.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Novel , pp. 103 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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