Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton Legacy Library, 585) - Hardcover

Sayre, Robert F.

9780691063300: Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton Legacy Library, 585)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691063303 ISBN 13: 9780691063300

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1977

Thoreau turned toward Indians in his writing as well as in his life, and this book traces the long and arduous process by which his ideas about Indians evolved from savagist stereotypes to attitudes of greater originality.

Originally published in 1977.

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About the Author:

ROBERT F. SAYRE is emeritus professor of English and American literature at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of the anthology American Lives, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of several other books, including Take This Exit: Re-Discovering the Iowa Landscape.

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