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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The last of the Mohicans"”.
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The American Indian as a Souvenir: Antiquarianism, Exoticism, and Sentimentalism in Cooper's "The Pioneers"
In his 1828 publication, Notions of the 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, …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
From its first European colonists to the present day, the American wilderness has fascinated, terrified, and challenged its residents. The struggle to survive on this unforgiving landscape has become the topic of many stories, including four texts from the earliest decades of the United States. …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
This dissertation reveals a hitherto unrecognized thread of speculative postapocalyptic fantasies underlying nineteenth-century accounts of the American frontier. Many critics have exposed the latent imperialism behind popular myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land; bringing together …