Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 3 Ch. I New World Babel 8 Ch. II Language and Conversion 28 Ch. III The Burden of Translation 56 Ch. IV The Savage Word 85 Ch. V Science of the Vanished 112 Ch. VI An American Poetics 139 Conclusion 159 Select Bibliography 169 Index 181

Reviews

"Gray [covers] a vast range of very diverse material, much of it unknown and unread by modern scholars."—Anthony Pagden, The Johns Hopkins University

"A substantial contribution to American intellectual history and to our understanding of how white presumptions shaped the attitudes toward Indian language and culture."—Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa