British Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Robbie Richardson's The Savage and Modern Self is a disciplined and rigorous exploration of the trope of the Indian as it appears in a wide range of British literary and cultural productions, and in the process, he has amassed a catalog of an astonishingly large number of texts that cite, circulate, augment, and amend this figure of the Indian. Documenting the plethora of "Indians" that appeared in British literary and sub-literary texts, this book demonstrates how British writers and the publishing apparatuses of the period peddled disinformation and propaganda not only for the purposes of a nation that waged nearly constant warfare in eighteenth-century North America, but also for the more amorphous and ultimately ambitious project of building the modern self.