The Demon of the Continent
Subtitle: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812217483
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1800 to c 1900; Native American; Indians in literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; USA; Semiotics & Theory; American - General; History and criticism; American literature
First sentence: In 1850, Henry A. S. Dearborn, mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts, proposed a monument to John Eliot, the seventeenth-century "Apostle" to the neighboring Indians.