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Title:

Leather-stocking redux, or, Old tales, new essays / edited by Jeffrey Walker.

Publisher:

AMS Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 284 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cooper, James Fenimore,--1789-1851--Leatherstocking tales.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Politics in literature.

Other Authors:

Walker, Jeffrey, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Leather-stocking redux: an introduction anew, and anon / by Jeffrey Walker -- The Africanist presence in The pioneers / by William Decker -- The last of the Mohicans, race mixing, and America's destiny / by Allan M. Axelrad -- Sex and the single mixed blood / by Barbara Alice Mann -- Mohicans, virtue ethics, literature, and life / by Robert Daly -- Marmaduke Temple, James Fenimore Cooper's portrait of an American man of leisure / by Signe O. Wegener -- On the prairie / by Lance Schachterle -- Inscribing the prairie sunset: Cooper, Cather, and Momaday / by John McWilliams -- Its ghastly visage: Cooper's Leather-stocking tales and the grotesque / by Matthew Wynn Sivils -- The pathfinder and Cooper's return to popular literature / by Steven P. Harthorn -- One more scene: the marketing context of Cooper's 'sixth' Leather-stocking tale / by Wayne Franklin.

Series:

AMS studies in the nineteenth century; no. 43

ISBN:

0404626432 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780404626433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0404644732 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780404644734 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)256765233

LCCN:

2008040496

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)