Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit

ISBN-13: 9780299325442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Sämi Ludwig

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction: From Scalping Knife to Iambic Pentameter 3
• Part I. Outside Ponteach: The Players and the Historical Context
• 1 Who Was Pontiac? 15
• 2 The Adventurous Life of Major Robert Rogers 31
• 3 The Historical Background of Ponteach 65
• Part II. Inside Ponteach: The Play Text and Its Literary Qualities
• 4 An Artistic Failure? 97
• 5 The Realistic Dimension 105
• 6 The Power of European Conventions 127
• 7 The Aesthetic Dimension 140
• 8 Important Issues 158
• 9 Open Questions 171
• Conclusions. The Original Backwoodsman?
• 10 Centrifugal Insights 187
• Notes 215
• Bibliography 245
• Index 259