New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans

This volume tracks critical responses to the The Last of the Mohicans from the time of its publication in 1826 to the present day.

H. Daniel Peck (Edited by)

9780521374149, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 March 1992

154 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.35 kg

The Last of the Mohicans is the most widely read and internationally acclaimed of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, and has traditionally been regarded as an exciting and well-made adventure story. In recent years, however, critics have found in this classic tale of colonial warfare deeper levels of meaning. In the introduction to this volume, H. Daniel Peck studies these developments by tracking critical responses to the novel from the time of its publication in 1826 to the present day. The essays that follow present contemporary re-assessments of The Last of the Mohicans from a variety of critical perspectives.

Preface
1. Introduction H. Daniel Peck
2. The widerness of words in The Last of the Mohicans Wayne Franklin
3. From atrocity to requiem: history in The Last of the Mohicans Terence Martin
4. How men and women wrote Indian stories Nina Baym
5. Generation through violence: Cooper and the making of Americans Shirley Samuels
6. The lesson of the massacre at Fort William Henry Robert Lawson-Peebles
Notes
Selected bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]