Resurrecting Leather-Stocking (eBook)

Pathfinding in Jacksonian America

Bill Christophersen (Autor)

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2019
312 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-961-3 (ISBN)

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An examination of the renowned author's complex portrayal of frontier AmericaJames Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales-The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer (1823-1841)-romantically portray frontier America during the colonial and early republican eras. Bill Christophersen's Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America suggests they also highlight problems plaguing nineteenth-century America during the contentious decades following the Missouri Compromise, when Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state.During the 1820s and 1830s, the nation was riven by sectional animosity, slavery, prejudice, populist politics, and finally economic collapse. Christophersen argues that Cooper used his fictions to imagine a path forward for the Republic. Cooper, he further suggests, brought back Leather-Stocking to test whether the common man, as empowered by Jackson's presidency, was capable of republican virtue-something the author considered key to renewing the nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2019
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Black Mass • Captivity Narrative • Cotton Mather • Cymbeline • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses • Henry David Thoreau • Indian Removal • In Parenthesis • John Woolman • Leatherstocking Tales • Origins of the American Civil War • Orwellian • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Slavery • The Hiding Place (biography) • Theodore Dreiser • Thomas Paine • Uncas • warfare
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-961-0 / 1611179610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-961-3 / 9781611179613