Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 218pp., [8]pp., 12 contributions, footnotes, bibliographical notes, list of contributors. CONTENTS: 1. George dekker: James Fenimore Cooper and the American Romances Tradition. 2. A. Robert Lee: Making History, Making Fiction: Cooper’s ‘ The Spy ‘. 3. Robert Lawson-Peebles: Property, Marriage, Women and Fenimore Cooper’s First Fictions. 4. W.M. Verhoeven: Neutralizing the Land: The Myth of Authority and the Authority of Myth in Fenimore Cooper’s ‘ The Spy ‘. 5. John P. McWilliams Jr.: Revolt in Massachusetts: The Midnight March of Lionel Lincoln. 6. Donald A. Ringe: Mode and Meaning in ‘ The Last of the Mohicans ‘. 7. Susan Scheckel: ” In the Land of His Fathers ” Cooper, Land Rights and the Legitimation of American National Identity. 8. John G. Cawelti: Cooper and the Frontier Myth and Anti-Myth. 9. Jan Bakker: From Leatherstocking to Rocketman: Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales and Pynchon’s ‘ Gravity’s Rainbow ‘ Reconsidered. 10. Richard D. Rust: On the Trail of a Craftsman: The Art of ‘ The Pathfinder ‘. 11. Theo D’Haen: Dis-Placing ‘ Satanstoe ‘. 12. Charles H. Adams: Inoformity and Progress: The Natural History of ‘ The Crater ‘. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 12: DQR Studies in Literature.