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"Dark catastrophe of passion": the "Indian" as human commodity in nineteenth-century British theatrical culture.

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20021222
Author:Pratt, Kathryn

THE MELANCHOLY NATIVE AMERICAN MAY HAVE GAINED CULTURAL ASCENDANCY in England through the popularity of American writers like James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant, but the sorrows of the "Indian" appealed to the nineteenth-century British subject for reasons different from those for which the mourning "Indian" attracted Americans. The appropriation of Native American land by the American government and the possible Celtic origins of the Native American tribes are two themes that surface in the Gentleman's Magazine and other British periodicals of the 1810s and 1820s. ...

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