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Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-101551118661

ISBN-139781551118666

eBay Product ID (ePID)71650774

Product Key Features

Book TitleLast of the Mohicans

Number of Pages460 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicWar & Military, Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-504170

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsJames Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans presents a double challenge to today's readers; a work of historical fiction, it has become, in itself, a historical artifact in need of explication. Paul Gutjahr's elegant introduction and judicious choice of secondary sources help to place Cooper's novel in its historical moment, while at the same time clarifying the novel's own engagements with American history. Accentuating Cooper's engagement with issues of race, gender, and hemispheric conflict, Gutjahr's edition reminds us of why Cooper's novel remains timely and even urgent. It will be the edition of choice for scholars, students, and casual readers alike.

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Maps Introduction James Fenimore Cooper: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Last of the Mohicans Preface Volume I Volume II Appendix A: Illustrations Appendix B: Cooper's Historical Sources From John Gottlieb Heckewelder, History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations(1876) From Jonathan Carver, Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768(1781) From Benjamin Silliman, A Short Tour Between Hartford and Quebec(1824) Appendix C: Recollections and Appraisals of Cooper From the United States Literary Gazette(May 1826) From the Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres(April 1826) From W.H. Gardiner, North American Review(1826) From William Cullen Bryant, "Discourse on the Life, Genius, and Writings of J. Fenimore Cooper" (1852) From Susan Fenimore Cooper, Pages and Pictures, from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper(1861) From Mark Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses," The New England Quarterly(c. 1895) Appendix D: The Cherokee Removal The United States Congress's Indian Removal Act (1830) From Andrew Jackson's Second State of the Union Address (1830) Select Bibliography

SynopsisThe Last of the Mohicansenjoyed tremendous popularity both in America and abroad, offering its readers not only a variation on the immensely popular traditional captivity narrative of the time, but also characters that would become iconic figures in the young nation's emerging literature. The novel's central action follows Leatherstocking and his two faithful friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, as they come to the aid of two daughters of a British officer seeking to become reunited with their father. The novel provides insights into Cooper's own thinking on Native American and White relations during the early national period, revealing a profound ambivalence to the reality that the rising fortunes of the young United States meant the declining fortunes of the nation's Native American inhabitants.

LC Classification NumberPS1408.A2G87 2009