Resurrecting Leather Stocking

Author : Bill Christophersen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179610
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resurrecting Leather-Stocking written by Bill Christophersen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the renowned author's complex portrayal of frontier America James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales—The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer (1823–1841)—romantically portray frontier America during the colonial and early republican eras. Bill Christophersen's Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America suggests they also highlight problems plaguing nineteenth-century America during the contentious decades following the Missouri Compromise, when Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state. During the 1820s and 1830s, the nation was riven by sectional animosity, slavery, prejudice, populist politics, and finally economic collapse. Christophersen argues that Cooper used his fictions to imagine a path forward for the Republic. Cooper, he further suggests, brought back Leather-Stocking to test whether the common man, as empowered by Jackson's presidency, was capable of republican virtue—something the author considered key to renewing the nation.

Author : Scott M Reznick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198891954
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism written by Scott M Reznick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.

Author : Ralph Birdsall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book The Story of Cooperstown written by Ralph Birdsall and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Signe O. Wegener
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682577
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Signe O. Wegener and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature. Singlehandedly, the gentleman farmer from upstate New York created the American historical, spy, sea, frontier, science fiction, and courtroom novels. His books became both national and international bestsellers, were quickly translated into other languages, and impacted the development of the American publishing industry. This literary companion is a useful resource covering the major themes, characters, settings and more found in Cooper's works. It includes an overview of his fiction; a brief biography; a chronological list of his major publications; and topics for discussion, research, and study.

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leather Stocking and Silk written by John Esten Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438489072
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book The Sea Lions written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of Cooper's sea novels, a genre he largely invented. Drawing upon memories from nearly three decades earlier of his own ventures in whaling and his reviews of accounts of exploring and hunting in cold seas, Cooper fashioned an exciting tale of two small vessels capturing seals near the Antarctic Circle. When the sealers are trapped by the ice and forced to winter over in extreme conditions, Cooper's hero undergoes a spiritual transformation amidst the sublime threat of hostile Nature. The editors argue that this transformation parallels Cooper's gradual shift from a religion of Nature to his embracing Trinitarian Christianity. In expanding the scope of his sea fiction to embrace spiritual questions, Cooper anticipates Melville, who reviewed the novel favorably. This scholarly edition, the thirtieth in The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper series, presents an accurate text that draws upon both the American first edition and the British first edition, for which the editors have determined Cooper provided some revisions not found in his American text. The edition provides extensive historical, cultural, and geographic explanatory notes. The editors also provide a full scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and the edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book Leather Stocking and Silk; Or: Hunter John Myers and His Times written by John Esten Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Railton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087081X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fenimore Cooper written by Stephen Railton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper's writings and activities has led many critics to view his career as fragmentary. Stephen Railton takes a psychoanalytic approach to the novelist's most important works and the most significant events in his life. By showing how the aesthetic struggle to create reflected attempts to reconcile conflicting emotional needs, the author is able to provide a much-needed coherent interpretation of Cooper's achievement. Professor Railton's analysis shows that an awareness of the extent to which Cooper's father dominated his life is central to an understanding of his novels and his often contradictory behavior. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book The Leather Stocking Tales written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Carl Arch
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294929
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper written by Stephen Carl Arch and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his day and its history. His works embrace themes that have dominated American literature since: the frontier; the oppression of Native Americans by Europeans; questions of race, gender, and class; and rugged individualism, as represented by figures like the pirate, the spy, the hunter, and the settler. His most memorable character, Natty Bumppo, has entered into American popular culture. The essays in this volume offer students bridges to Cooper's novels, which grapple with complex moral issues that are still crucial today. Engaging with film adaptations, cross-culturalism, animal studies, media history, environmentalism, and Indigenous American poetics, the essays offer new ways to bring these novels to life in the classroom.