TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watts,Edward
TI  - Colonizing the past: mythmaking and pre-Columbian Whites in nineteenth-century American writing 
SN  - 9780813943886
AV  - PS217 .C656 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Charlottesville, London
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - White people in literature
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Mythology in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: The Primordial Nation --; Welsh Indians in the Early Republic --; The Lost Tribes and the Found Nation --; The White Mound Builders and the Lessons of Prehistory --; Dwarf Epics and the Ancient Irish --; The Norse Forefathers of the American Empire; 2; b
N2  - "This book examines nineteenth-century myths of pre-Colombian whites in the United States, as well as literary satires of those myths by authors such as Washington Irving and Mark Twain"--
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