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The Half-blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-century American Fiction by William J. Scheick (Hardback, 1979)

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The half-blood - half Indian, half white - is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the half-blood was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed half Indian, half white, and half devil - or a bright link between the races from which would emerge a new American prototype? In this important first study of the fictional half-blood, William J. Scheick examines works ranging from the ermously popular dime vels and the short fiction of such writers as Bret Harte to the more sophisticated works of Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, and others. He discovers that ambivalence characterized nearly all who wrote of the half-blood. Some writers found racial mixing abhorrent, while others saw more benign possibilities. The use of a half-blood in spirit - a character of untainted blood who joined the virtues of the two races in his manner of life - was one ingenious literary strategy adopted by a number of writers, Mr. Scheick also compares the literary portrayal of the half-blood with the nineteenth-century view of the mulatto. This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.

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The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-10
0813113903
ISBN-13
9780813113906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96074653

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Author
William J. Scheick
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

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Weight
311g
Height
216mm
Width
140mm

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Place of Publication
Lexington
Spine
11mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
William J. Scheick, J.R. Miliken Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Design in Puritan American Literature and Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America.
Date of Publication
30/12/1979
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Literary Criticism

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