Plotting America's Past: Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales

by William P. Kelly

This is the first book-length study to show how Cooper uses the Leath­erstocking series as a touchstone to ex­plore pre-Civil War America's perception of its past.

Kelly's historiographic approach to the Tales marks a significant departure from previous critical commentary on the sto­ries: Other critics have centered either on the Tales' mythological status, on their relevance for an understanding of Jack­sonian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311445
• ISBN13: 9780809311446
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"