Download or read book Savage Songs & Wild Romances written by John O'Leary and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Texts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture -- “Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature -- “We owe them all that we possess”: 'Savage' Songs and Laments -- “Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of Sympathy -- Indigenous Romeos and Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas -- “In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse Epics -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.