Date of Award
Summer 8-2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
John Hazlett
Second Advisor
Peter Schock
Third Advisor
Anne Boyd-Rioux
Fourth Advisor
N/A
Fifth Advisor
N/A
Sixth Advisor
N/A
Seventh Advisor
N/A
Abstract
Since the 1992 republication of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, most academic work on Apess has focused on his Methodism, his Native American identity, or the intersection between these two parts of his life and work. Dr. Tim Fulford is the only scholar to have written about Apess and Romanticism. In his book Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756-1830, Fulford illustrates the elegiac modes often present in the work of Apess. This thesis will examine William Apess’ Son of the Forest as an expression of early nineteenth century American Romanticism from a post-colonial standpoint. Apess uses Romantic rhetoric to define Native American identity and through that identity, argue for Native American political agency.
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Recommended Citation
Hilden, Courtney, "Romantic Rhetoric and Appropriation in William Apess’s A Son of the Forest" (2014). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1872.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1872
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