Leather-stocking redux, or,  Old tales, new essays
By: edited by Jeffrey Walker.
Contributors: Walker, Jeffrey, 1946-
Series: AMS studies in the nineteenth century -- no. 43
Publisher: AMS Press, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780404644734; 9780404626433
Subjects: Cooper, James Fenimore, -- 1789-1851; 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 titles: Leather-stocking redux; Old tales, new essays
Description: The ten essays in this collection 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. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leather-stocking redux: an introduction anew, and anon / by Jeffrey Walker; title: The Africanist presence in The pioneers / by William Decker; title: The last of the Mohicans, race mixing, and America's destiny / by Allan M. Axelrad; title: Sex and the single mixed blood / by Barbara Alice Mann; title: Mohicans, virtue ethics, literature, and life / by Robert Daly; title: Marmaduke Temple, James Fenimore Cooper's portrait of an American man of leisure / by Signe O. Wegener; title: On the prairie / by Lance Schachterle; title: Inscribing the prairie sunset: Cooper, Cather, and Momaday / by John McWilliams; title: Its ghastly visage: Cooper's Leather-stocking tales and the grotesque / by Matthew Wynn Sivils; title: The pathfinder and Cooper's return to popular literature / by Steven P. Harthorn; title: One more scene: the marketing context of Cooper's 'sixth' Leather-stocking tale / by Wayne Franklin.