Unconventional Politics Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy

Dean deftly weaves together scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature, current debates in Native American and Indigenous Studies about the ideological work of literary texts, and theories of literary form and aesthetics. In so doing, she re-places considerations of literary form and aesthetics alongside questions of political and cultural work.""-Siobhan Senier, author of Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard

""Unconventional Politics makes a substantial contribution to the field of nineteenth-century literary studies. Specifically, Dean offers a new way of understanding texts both within and in debate with conventions like sentimentality or the captivity narrative.""-Cari Carpenter, author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians