Hessell Sensitive Negotiations

Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8478-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hessell, Nikki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction: The Power of (Poetic) Promises

1. Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of "the Monster Brandt"

2. Romanticism and Removal: Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix

3. Digressive Diplomacy: George Copway and Byron's Lines on the Rhine

4. "Always Build a Fence around the King's Word": Sol Plaatje and The Deserted Village

5. Petitions and Repetitions: Reweti Kohere and the Ashes of Byron and Macaulay

Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Romantic Poetry

Coda
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nikki Hessell is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens and Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations.