The American Abraham
Subtitle: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521327824
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature and society; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; History; American - General; Cooper, James Fenimore; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; United States; 19th century; Political and social views; 1789-1851; Cooper, James Fenimore,; Domestic fiction, American; History and criticism
First sentence: As the first romance of frontier settlement outside the Leatherstocking series, The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish (1829) offers a number of important advantages as a starting point.