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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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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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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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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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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 …