Frontier Justice in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Davis Wood

Автор: Cooper, James Fenimore
Название: Last of the mohicans
ISBN: 0199538190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538195
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The second of Cooper`s five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. At the centre of the novel is the celebrated `Massacre` of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel`saction: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.

Автор: Railton Stephen
Название: Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination
ISBN: 069161623X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691616230
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper`s writings and activities has led many critics to view his career as fragmentary. Stephen Railton takes a psychoanalytic approach to the novelist`s most important works and the most significant events in his life. By showing how the aesthetic struggle to create reflected attempts to reconcile con