The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American and “Indians and ” in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of and “Indians and ” in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism, and “Britishness, and ” and, ultimately, the and “modern self and ” over the course of the century. Considering the ways in which British writers represented contact between Britons and and “Indians, and ” both at home and abroad, the author shows how these sites of contact moved from a self-affirmation of British authority earlier in the century, to a mutual corruption, to a desire to appropriate perceived traits of and “Indianess. and ” Looking at texts exclusively produced in Britain, The Savage and Modern Self reveals that and “the modern and ” finds definition through imagined scenes of cultural contact. By the end of the century, Richardson concludes, the hybrid Indian-Brition emerging in literature and visual culture exemplifies a form of modern, British masculinity.

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