New essays on The last of the Mohicans
In this volume, deeper levels of meaning in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans are studied by tracking critical responses to the novel from its publication in 1826 to the present and reassessing them from a variety of critical perspectives.
Print Book, English, 1992
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992
estudios y conferencias
viii, 143 p. ; 22 cm.
9780521377713, 0521377714
644747802
Preface; 1. Introduction H. Daniel Peck; 2. The widerness of words in The Last of the Mohicans Wayne Franklin; 3. From atrocity to requiem: history in The Last of the Mohicans Terence Martin; 4. How men and women wrote Indian stories Nina Baym; 5. Generation through violence: Cooper and the making of Americans Shirley Samuels; 6. The lesson of the massacre at Fort William Henry Robert Lawson-Peebles; Notes; Selected bibliography.