The Mound Builders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand

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Abstract: America's wilderness captures the imagination of the French writer François Renee de Costburien (1768-1848). Chardonnay added his imaginative reality to his travel record and wrote an article about his visit to the United States from 10th July 1791 to 1st December, but many of his observations It is very accurate. . Instead of focusing on whether you actually visited all the places Chateaubriand actually wrote, students need to carefully study the influence of the text of Chateaubriand in the first half of the 19th century on the recognition of Europe in the United States. French young aristocrat influenced by American view of Chateaubriand is his cousin Alexis de Tocqueville. * Time: 1791

When William Bertram and others recorded local Native American stories about Mound, they seemed to confirm the origins of the myths of these mounds. According to Bartram's early journal (Travels, which was originally published in 1791), Crick and Cherokee, who lived around the mound, told their architecture as "living in ancient times and possessing this country many years ago "I said. A description of the click and Cherokee's history by Berklam led to the conviction that these Native Americans are colonists as well as Europeans and Americans. This is another reason to prove the elimination of Native Americans from their ancestral land: if Native American is also an early colonialist, the logic seems like this, American white people are indigenous people I have the same land rights as.

This is particularly noticeable in the Midwest and the Southeastern where the ancient jungle, the Hopewell, the Mississippi era span the Middle East. The speculation about the origin of the grassland originated from the prairie on the prairie and the vast floodplain like the great prairie itself, these landscapes and the mounds built on them quickly became fancy places became. According to Gordon Sayer (Mound Builder and Jefferson, the imagination of Bertram and Chateaubrian's ancient America), the story of the origins of Mound is usually "ancient" and "natural" as "remote remains" Attractiveness to the ". Landscape representation