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title	:	Savagism and Civilization : A Study of the Indian and the American Mind
author	:	Pearce, Roy Harvey.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520062272
print isbn13	:	9780520062276
ebook isbn13	:	9780585079158
language	:	English
subject	Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation, Indians in literature, Indians of North America--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	E98.C89P43 1988eb
ddc	:	973/.0497
subject	:	Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation, Indians in literature, Indians of North America--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States.

Page i Savagism and Civilization A Study of the Indian and the American Mind

Page ii CIVILIZATION, n. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; the state of being refined in manners, from the grossness of savage life, and improved in arts and learning. SAVAGE, n. A human being in his native state of rudeness, one who is untaught, uncivilized or without cultivation of mind or manners. The savages of America, when uncorrupted by the vices of civilized men, are remarkable for their hospitality to strangers, and for their truth, fidelity and gratitude to their friends, but implacably cruel and revengeful toward their enemies.... SAVAGISM, n. The state of rude uncivilized men; the state of men in their native wildness and rudeness. Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828

Page iii Savagism and Civilization A Study of the Indian and the American Mind Roy Harvey Pearce UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London

Page iv ForARTHUR O. LOVEJOY Can Speculation satisfy, Notion without Reality? University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England Copyright (c) 1988 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pearce, Roy Harvey. Savagism and civilization. Rev. ed. of: The savages of America. 1953. Includes index. 1. Indians of North AmericaCultural assimilation. 2. Indians in literature. 3. Indians of North America Public opinion. 4. Public opinionUnited States. I. Pearce, Roy Harvey. Savages of America. II. Title. E98.C89P43 1988 973'.0497 8730172 ISBN 052006227-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) Printed in the United States of America 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.481984.

Page v CONTENTS Foreword: Arnold Krupat vii Preface xvii Part 1: Antecedents and Origins, 16091777 1 I Spirituals and Temporals: The Indian in Colonial Civilization 3 Part 2: The Life and Death of the American Savage, 17771851 51 II A Melancholy Fact: The Indian in American Life 53 III Character and Circumstance: The Idea of Savagism 76 IV The Zero of Human Society: The Idea of the Savage 105 V An Impassable Gulf: The Social and Historical Image 135 VI The Virtues of Nature: The Image in Drama and Poetry 169 VII Red Gifts and White: The Image in Fiction 196 Part 3: Afterthoughts, 1851 237 VIII After a Century of Dishonor: The Idea of Civilization 239 Postscript 253 Index 265

Page vii FOREWORD ARNOLD KRUPAT The reissue of Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization comes at an especially propitious moment, one in which there is a renewed interest in cultural criticism attentive to discursive and ideological issues. Indeed, it is probably not too much to say that Pearce's book has played some real part in keeping the possibility of such criticism alive in America.

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