Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction: ancient America in the post-colonial national imaginary -- Commencements: pre-Columbian worlds and Philip Freneau's literature of American empire -- Diplomacy: Joel Barlow's scripting and subscripting of ancient America -- Noctography: Prescott's sketchings of Aztecs and Incas -- Mutations: Melville, representation, and South American history -- Passage: two rivulets and the obscurity of American maps.
