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James Fenimore Cooper and the New England Mind
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AMERICAN MADNESS: THE FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLA CATHER, AND O.E. RØLVAAG
… works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag rely on the frontier and the theme of madness to depict characters’ aberrant behaviors. Using these depictions of madness, I explore questions of religion, violence, gender, and ethnic identity …
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The American Indian as a Souvenir: Antiquarianism, Exoticism, and Sentimentalism in Cooper's "The Pioneers"
… Americans: Picked up by a Traveling Bachelor, James Fenimore Cooper laments, “I have never seen a nation so much alike in my life. . . . There is no costume for the peasant, (there is scarcely a peasant at all,) no wig for the judge, no baton for the general, no diadem for the Chief …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
<p>This dissertation examines the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, focusing upon their explorations of Roman Catholic spirituality, as reflected in their poetry, prose, and personal writings. Despite the anti-Romanism prevalent in …
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Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain
… abroad. The three major figures in this study--James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--all use moments of cross-cultural contact and transference to theorize the permeability of the language barrier, seeking a mean between the oversimplification of the translator's task and a …
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Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857
… Irving’s picturesque sketches (1819-20), James Fenimore Cooper’s discursive romances (1821-23), Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist addresses (1837), Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s didactic allegories (1836-37), and Herman Melville’s anti-novel (1857) are fundamentally concerned with the …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
… Henry Marie Brackenridge, Maria Gowen Brooks, James Fenimore Cooper, Timothy Flint, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Edgar Allan Poe, William Davis Robinson, Vicente Rocafuerte, Orazio de Atellis Santangelo, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Richard Penn Smith, Jose Alvarez de Toledo, and Lorenzo de Zavala.
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… States. Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Black Hawk's Autobiography all imagine survival stories within which protagonists must strive against a willful, agentic wilderness. Within these stories, …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pilot" in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Instead, this dissertation remaps the genealogy of the genre of American maritime literature by beginning with …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… as it was embodied by Daniel Boone and by James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo. I use these figures to examine how popular perceptions of the sustenance hunter underwent significant transformation after the Revolutionary period, and how Boone and Bumppo came to exemplify American attitudes …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… settlers, writers such as William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London crafted historical narratives that imagined the swift annihilation of entire populations. For them, the blank slate of the American continent was simultaneously a ruined wasteland, and the …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
… between 1823 and 1939. Through an exploration of James Fenimore Cooper's heroine Elizabeth Temple in the novel The Pioneers (1823), Isabella Bird's published letters entitled A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1873), and Muriel Rukeyser's reaction to the Gauley Bridge Tragedy of the 1930s in …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… are the amanuenses of war writing, as were James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Herman Melville earlier in the nineteenth century. My dissertation traces an alternate literary history of American war, one written by soldiers from the early republic through Reconstruction. The …
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King Philip's War in representative American literary works of the period 1820-1860
… War as their narrative focus. The works are James Eastburn and Robert Sands' Yamoyden (1820), a verse romance, John Augustus Stone's Metamora (1829), a stare melodrama, James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,(1828) G. B. Hollister's Mount Hope (1851), and D. P. Thompson's The …
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"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
… authors such as Herman Melville, Susan Fenimore Cooper and Margaret Fuller construct narratives that overturn hegemonic paradigms and participate in a culture of dissent that reconceives U.S. American identity in a cosmopolitan sense. Henry D. Thoreau functions as a central figure in …
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An Approach to the Study of American Indian Literature at the College Level
… literature students have studied the works of James Fenimore Cooper and have read "Hiawatha," but few have read the Navajo "Night Chant" or heard traditional Indian tales, and courses in twentieth century literature have routinely omitted American Indian novelists and poets. An increasing …
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
By the early Nineteenth-Century United States, the myth of North America’s resource superabundance sat uneasily with the nation’s liberal doctrine of individual rights. Imagining a vast continent of endless resources available to all, Americans then cordoned them off as property accessible only by …