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Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays
The ten original essays in this collection, all by internationally known Cooper scholars, offer fresh and original insights into the five Leather-Stocking Tales: The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Treating the novels individually or commenting on the series as a whole, the contributors address such issues as race, gender, and ethnicity in Cooper's world and their relationship to ours, as well as scholarly responses to the politics and economics of the early Republic and discussions of the nature of American frontier society in the first half of the nineteenth century.

More specifically, the essays treat race-mixing and the Africanist presence in the Leather-Stocking Tales; Cooper's role as popular novelist; virtue ethics, literature, and life; Cooper's portrait of the American man of leisure; the presence of the grotesque in his fiction; and the marketing context of Cooper's "sixth" Leather-Stocking Tale.

Intended to be used as a companion to a study of Cooper and his Leather-Stocking novels, this collection of lively, informative, and readable essays will encourage serious contemporary discussion of America's first successful-and at one time most popular-novelist.

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Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays
The ten original essays in this collection, all by internationally known Cooper scholars, offer fresh and original insights into the five Leather-Stocking Tales: The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Treating the novels individually or commenting on the series as a whole, the contributors address such issues as race, gender, and ethnicity in Cooper's world and their relationship to ours, as well as scholarly responses to the politics and economics of the early Republic and discussions of the nature of American frontier society in the first half of the nineteenth century.

More specifically, the essays treat race-mixing and the Africanist presence in the Leather-Stocking Tales; Cooper's role as popular novelist; virtue ethics, literature, and life; Cooper's portrait of the American man of leisure; the presence of the grotesque in his fiction; and the marketing context of Cooper's "sixth" Leather-Stocking Tale.

Intended to be used as a companion to a study of Cooper and his Leather-Stocking novels, this collection of lively, informative, and readable essays will encourage serious contemporary discussion of America's first successful-and at one time most popular-novelist.

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Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays

Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays

by Jeffrey Walker
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Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays

Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays

by Jeffrey Walker

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The ten original essays in this collection, all by internationally known Cooper scholars, offer fresh and original insights into the five Leather-Stocking Tales: The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Treating the novels individually or commenting on the series as a whole, the contributors address such issues as race, gender, and ethnicity in Cooper's world and their relationship to ours, as well as scholarly responses to the politics and economics of the early Republic and discussions of the nature of American frontier society in the first half of the nineteenth century.

More specifically, the essays treat race-mixing and the Africanist presence in the Leather-Stocking Tales; Cooper's role as popular novelist; virtue ethics, literature, and life; Cooper's portrait of the American man of leisure; the presence of the grotesque in his fiction; and the marketing context of Cooper's "sixth" Leather-Stocking Tale.

Intended to be used as a companion to a study of Cooper and his Leather-Stocking novels, this collection of lively, informative, and readable essays will encourage serious contemporary discussion of America's first successful-and at one time most popular-novelist.

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ISBN-13: 9780404644734
Publisher: AMS Press, Inc.
Publication date: 12/28/2008
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)
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