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Tag: James Fenimore Cooper

  • This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.

  • Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans

    Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Society Website Oneonta College, State University of New York July 2013 Roberta Gray Katz DePaul University Presented at the 18th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July,…

  • James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel

    James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…

  • Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed”

    Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed” Cooper Panel American Literature Association Conference San Diego, California May 1998 James Fenimore Cooper Society Barbara Mann, Lecturer of English University of Toledo Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers No. 10, August 1998 Natty Bumppo—Hawkeye of James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leather-Stocking Tales—is indelibly inscribed…

  • The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance

    The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…

  • Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology

    Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…

  • “Miscegenation” Making Race in America

    In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…

  • Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Indiana University Press 2004-10-12 160 pages 1 bibliog., 1 index, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21733-2; ISBN: 0-253-21733-4 Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English The College of New Jersey This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of…

  • Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature

    Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.