The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance /
Tawil, Ezra F.,1967-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840 -- Remaking natural rights : race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings -- Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white -- Homely legends : the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish -- Stowe's vanishing Americans : "negro" interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's cabin.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
American fiction
Race in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Indians in literature.
Slavery in literature.