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Original publishers 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: Coopers The Spy . 3. Robert Lawson-Peebles: Property, Marriage, Women and Fenimore Coopers First Fictions. 4. W.M. Verhoeven: Neutralizing the Land: The Myth of Authority and the Authority of Myth in Fenimore Coopers 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: Coopers Leatherstocking Tales and Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow Reconsidered. 10. Richard D. Rust: On the Trail of a Craftsman: The Art of The Pathfinder . 11. Theo DHaen: 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.