First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.
First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.
FOREWORD: Arnold Krupat
PREFACE
PART 1: Antecedents and Origins, 1609-1777
I Spirituals and Temporals: The Indian in
Colonial Civilization
PART 2: The Life and Death of the American Savage,
1777-1851
II A Melancholy Fact: The Indian in American
Life
III Character and Circumstance: The Idea of
Savagism
IV The Zero of Human Society: The Idea of the
Savage
V An Impassable Gulf: The Social and Historical
Image
VI The Virtues of Nature: The Image in Drama and
Poetry
VII Red Gifts and White: The Image in
Fiction
PART 3: Afterthoughts, 1851-
VIII After a Century of Dishonor: The Idea of
Civilization
POSTSCRIPT
INDEX
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