ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how the Foucauldian discursive formations regulated by dominant power relations established an American Romantic archive about the backwoods. It shows how the cultural realm of dominant power relations during America's early colonial period regulated the discursive statements about the wilderness. The images of the wilderness have a long and important pedigree in the Romantic Movement. The chapter reveals the varied colonial discourses about the American wilderness that were regulated to assemble the Romantic archive that situated the Trilogy cases. It examines an important literary theme that builds upon how the Indian and European as well as later Euro-American frontiersman were distinguished from one another in early Romantic literature with respect to the American wilderness. The chapter provides the image and theme of the wilderness as both a literary and religious genre that was inserted into the Marshall opinions by way of anamnesis and archive that preceded the Trilogy cases.
