Sensitive negotiations : indigenous diplomacy and British Romantic poetry / Nikki Hessell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hessell, Nikki, author.

Series:

SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomacy--Language.

Diplomacy.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, [2021]

Summary:

"Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Power of (Poetic) Promises

1 Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of "the Monster Brandt"

Haudenosaunee Diplomacy and Transatlantic Politics

Gertrude of Wyoming and the Diplomatic Record

Condoling with Campbell

"Restorying" Gertrude of Wyoming

From Campbell to Caledonia, from London to Land Back Lane

2 Romanticism and Removal: Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix

Newspaper Diplomacy

Move or Be Moved: Hemans and the Poetics of Cherokee Diplomacy

Hemans and the Diplomatic Voice of Women

3 Digressive Diplomacy: George Copway and Byron's Lines on the Rhine

Touching the Pen: Ojibwe Diplomacy in the Nineteenth Century

Copway and Ojibwe Diplomacy

Byron's Rhine as Diplomatic Artefact

4 "Always Build a Fence around the King's Word": Sol Plaatje and The Deserted Village

Plaatje and Chiefly Diplomacy

Native Life in Auburn

Phonetics, Proverbs, Petitions, Poems

5 Petitions and Repetitions: Rēweti Kōhere and the Ashes of Byron and Macaulay

"He Iwi Tahi Tatou": The Treaty of Waitangi and Patterns of Diplomacy

"A Marae on Paper": Kōhere and the Forms of Māori Diplomacy

Byron, Macaulay, and the Uses of History

Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Romantic Poetry

The Flowers that Grow in the "Daffodil Gap"

Diplomacy Is Not a Metaphor

Coda

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438484785

143848478X

OCLC:

1262372866