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

Title Sensitive negotiations : indigenous diplomacy and British Romantic poetry / Nikki Hessell.
Publisher Albany : State University of New York
Creation Date [2021]
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Content 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.
Series SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Extent 1 online resource (272 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997012197203005171
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