Philip Freneau (1752-1832, U.S. Poet and Journalist) and the American Indian

FAIN: FT-12336-74

J. Kenneth Sieben
Essex County College (Newark, NJ 07102-1719)

To determine whether Freneau's published views on the American Indian, both in prose and poetry, were based on genuine convictions founded on experience or on fashionable thinking inspired by Rousseau's noble-savage doctrine. The study will identify all Freneau's writing dealing with the American Indian, analyze them, and search for any experience on sources.