The Neutral Ground: The Andre Affair and the Background of Cooper's the Spy

by Bruce A. Rosenberg

John Andre was captured in September 1780, outside British lines, and was hanged as a spy. Forty years later, he was still so highly regarded that, in 1821, his body was exhumed and reburied in the Heroes' Corner of Westminster Abbey. This book argues that James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy, is an examination of the nature and character of clandestinity in which the author investigates the morality of deceit and disguised intentions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313293198
• ISBN13: 9780313293191
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 5.7"