Richard Vanderbeets
Biographic Data
| ID | 685378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Vanderbeets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanderbeets |
| SIGNATURE | VANDERBEETS R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Held Captive by Indians
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
Held Captive by Indians
White into Red
Journal Article White into Red: A Study of the Assimilation of White Persons Captured by Indians and Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642–1836 Get access White into Red: A Study of the Assimilation of White Persons Captured by Indians. By Heard J. Norman. (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1973. x, 180 p. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $6.00.)Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642–1836. Edited by VanDerBeets Richard.…
Held Captive by Indians
The Indian Captivity Narrative as Ritual
ALL CIVILIZED PEOPLES have recognized the value of tempering their joys with a play or story chronicling the misfortunes and tragedies of others. Because the earliest Americans countenanced neither play-acting nor the unhealthy influences of the novel, they wrote and read true tales of tragedy and horror in the form of disasters, plagues, and shipwrecks-and of Indian massacres and captivities. As the frontier pushed westward under continuing conf…
"Cooper and the "Semblance of Reality
THE PREFACE to James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer (84I) concludes with the statement that the tale is purely fiction, no existing for any of its facts, characters, or other peculiarities, beyond that which was thought necessary to secure the semblance of reality.' This disclaimer is flexible enough to countenance the use of sources for Indian lore, and it has long been acknowledged that Cooper's chief source for such lore in his tales was Hec…
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
The Indian Captivity Narrative as Ritual
ALL CIVILIZED PEOPLES have recognized the value of tempering their joys with a play or story chronicling the misfortunes and tragedies of others. Because the earliest Americans countenanced neither play-acting nor the unhealthy influences of the novel, they wrote and read true tales of tragedy and horror in the form of disasters, plagues, and shipwrecks-and of Indian massacres and captivities. As the frontier pushed westward under continuing conf…
"Cooper and the "Semblance of Reality
THE PREFACE to James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer (84I) concludes with the statement that the tale is purely fiction, no existing for any of its facts, characters, or other peculiarities, beyond that which was thought necessary to secure the semblance of reality.' This disclaimer is flexible enough to countenance the use of sources for Indian lore, and it has long been acknowledged that Cooper's chief source for such lore in his tales was Hec…
The Indian Captivity Narrative as Ritual
ALL CIVILIZED PEOPLES have recognized the value of tempering their joys with a play or story chronicling the misfortunes and tragedies of others. Because the earliest Americans countenanced neither play-acting nor the unhealthy influences of the novel, they wrote and read true tales of tragedy and horror in the form of disasters, plagues, and shipwrecks-and of Indian massacres and captivities. As the frontier pushed westward under continuing conf…
Held Captive by Indians
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
Held Captive by Indians
White into Red
Journal Article White into Red: A Study of the Assimilation of White Persons Captured by Indians and Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642–1836 Get access White into Red: A Study of the Assimilation of White Persons Captured by Indians. By Heard J. Norman. (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1973. x, 180 p. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $6.00.)Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642–1836. Edited by VanDerBeets Richard.…
Held Captive by Indians
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