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...Geoffrey Sanborn Sanborn's essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman , an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After showing that the dominant aim of this melodrama about a Swiss executioner's family is to critique white American prejudice against...

...Stephen Germic Duke University Press 2007 Stephen Land Claims, Natives, and Nativism: Germic Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Fealty to Place A flock of wild pigeons wheeling beautifully over the mountain this afternoon. We have had but few...

...David D. Cooper By Alan D. Hodder. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. xix, 346 pp.$35.00. By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. ix, 263 pp.$34.95. 2003 668 American Literature individual the means...

...Tova Cooper Cooper's essay shows how the photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at educational institutions such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and Hampton Institute, as well as in the Washington, D.C., public schools, show the influence of social Darwinism on progressive...

..., central to both James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy and John Neal's Seventy-Six , serves as a contemporary allegorical expression of historical change, a figure best explained by Walter Benjamin's definition of the allegorical ruin. The suffering soldier complicates national origins and resists narrative...

... of cooperation as a fundamental biological principle and defining diversity as a critical element of communal stability, community ecology helped city observers challenge the logic of urban renewal by infusing public relationships that had previously been dismissed as emotionally bankrupt with new affective...

... Coast in orientation: the so-called punk poets of LA, who are the subject of this article, revered the New York school poetry of John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, and Joe Brainard but also idolized downtown punks like Patti Smith. Focusing in particular on Dennis Cooper, his punk poetry periodical, Little...

... in U.S. history by describing a persistent and paradoxical U.S. cultural logic: the logic of left alone . The essay argues that James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel The Pioneers contributes to an inchoate discourse of privacy rights, the contours of which continue to define present-day understandings...

...Aviva F. Taubenfeld The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education . By Cooper Tova . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 264 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book, $31.95 . Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation...

... of a Voyage to New Zealand (1817) and George Lillie Craik’s The New Zealanders (1830). Sanborn argues that Cooper’s Magua and Melville’s Queequeg were modeled on the historically specific Maori chiefs Te Ara (Magua) and Te Pehi Kupe (Queequeg), whom readers of the time, Sanborn believes...

... that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them.”22 The “cement” here presumes that friendship and cooperation, rather than institutionally enforced inequality, are norms of black-­white...

... of [Hurston5 Perhaps the best example of this approach is Jan Cooper’s “Zora Neale Hurston Was Always a Southerner Too” (1993). As the title indicates, Cooper tries to integrate Hurston into Hurston’s (Extended) South  755 the established Southern literary canon...

... 2007 Brief Mention General James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. By Wayne Franklin. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2007. xxxiv, 708 pp. $40.00. The first of two volumes, this edition covers the first thirty-six years of Cooper’s life, from his boyhood growing up...

... comprehensive study ranges from the early nineteenth century to the Civil War, weaving readings of well-known authors like James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain with travel narratives, contemporary best sellers, and writing in the newly emerging historical sciences...

... a compelling Lacanian account of the contemporary political and legal critiques launched by James Fenimore Cooper in The Crater and Herman Melville in White-Jacket. Throughout, Berger follows Žižek in arguing for shifting fantasy from an unconscious function of the human subject to a formal dynamic...

... with the work of writers like Brittney Cooper and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Wall demonstrates that the essay is a worthy object of study in terms of both its form and its content. Barnard’s Empire of Ruin opens with a compelling reading of a line from Virgil’s Aeneid , inscribed on the wall of the National...

... 2005 Brief Mention Editions Afloat and Ashore or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford. By James Fenimore Cooper. Ed. Thomas L. Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick. 2 vols. xxxvii, 583 pp.; 491 pp. Brook- lyn, N.Y.: AMS Press. 2004. $205.00. CSE approved. This two-volume set...

... that ‘‘biographical truth is now more a matter of mass-media portraiture, and identity consequently more a matter of public consensus, than ever before Collections Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on ‘‘Rural Hours’’ and Other Works. Ed. Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press...

... of supernatural elements to articulate new directions for religious practice (134). At various moments, Rivett argues, such absorption happened on the basis of reciprocity (such as in Experience Mayhew’s accounts of Wampanoag people in Indian Converts [1727]). Yet by the nineteenth century, authors like Cooper...

.... Brief Mention 415 General The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper. By Russell T. Newman. Lanham, Md.: Lexington. 2003. v, 107 pp. $50.00. In an ecocritical look at the literary work and pioneer aesthetic that guided Cooper, Newman’s study...