Includes bibliographical references and filmographies.
Contents:
America's historical romance : The last of the Mohicans to Hamilton / Sarah Sillin -- Cooper's revolutionary novels : surface reading and grotesque American history / Joseph J. Letter -- Teaching The deerslayer through historical and critical debates / Rochelle Raineri Zuck -- Cross-culturalism in The last of the Mohicans / Donna Richardson -- Collective inquiry and animal studies in The pioneers / Keat Murray -- Environmental apocalypse and The crater / Matthew Wynn Sivils -- Indigenous American poetics in The prarie / Betty Booth Donohue (Cherokee Nation) -- Interactive identities : The last of the Mohicans in English literature couses for nonmajors / Elaina Anne Frulla -- Applying pedagogies of recovery to The pioneers / Lisa West -- Narrative and survival strategies in Satanstoe / Robert Daly -- Mary Monson, girl detective : Cooper as a mystery writer / Barbara Alice Mann -- Language diversity in Cooper's novels / Anna Scannavini -- Wyandotté and American scenery / Michael Demson -- Cooper's early work in a media history context / Christopher J. Lukasik -- The social power of sentimental lament : The last of the Mohicans and Mann's film adaptation / Paul Gutjahr -- Teaching The last of the Mohicans through cinematic adaptation / David W. Hartwig -- Cooper and adaptation as layered cultural history / Todd Nathan Thompson.
Summary:
"Offers techniques for teaching the novels of James Fenimore Cooper in undergraduate and graduate classrooms, including considerations of American identity, American Indians, Native Americans, Indigenous American poetics, race, detective fiction, media history, film adaptations, environmentalism, environmental apocalypse, animal studies, cross-culturalism, and the French and Indian Wars"-- Provided by publisher.
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