The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch

by Warren Motley

Book Overview

In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career. Whereas most studies of Cooper have centered on the figure of the Leatherstocking - that solitary model of the self-sufficient American hero untrammeled by civilization - this book examines Cooper's interest in the pioneer patriarchs who built new societies in the wilderness. Throughout his career Cooper explored an essential American problem: how to achieve...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521327822
• ISBN13: 9780521327824
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"