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...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...

...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

...: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women, 872–74. Review: Roberson, Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities, 872–74. Sanborn, Geoffrey. “James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel,” 1–29. Sánchez-Eppler, Karen...

... 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...

... comprehensive scope does aid in his goal of dislodging now hoary but still persistent assumptions about consensus formation in this period. More vital are Kennedy’s striking analyses of lesser-known texts of national definition like James Fenimore Cooper’s Gleanings from Europe series, the works of Pequot...

...), with carnival and the carnivalesque often providing “a mask for revolutionary activity” (89). Revolution and catastrophe function as a node connecting the work of diverse circumCaribbean authors writing generations apart, from Martin Delany and Constance Fenimore Woolson to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright...

..., New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua (1854), Black Hawk’s Life (1833), John Dunn Hunter’s Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America (1823), James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and The Pioneers (1823), and Sarah Winnemucca’s Life among the Piutes...

... of a robust illiberal strand of thought in novels as varied as James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier narratives and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s lesser-known sentimental novels. What makes the objects of Shapiro’s study illiberal is not so much an affiliation with working-class activist thought, although...

... and cultural canon by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, but he also sheds important and fresh light on insufficiently explored and studied areas of cultural history regarding race, ethnicity, and performance during this period...

... chapters, Schillings’s lengthy book explores the evolution of the concept of hostis humani generis (the enemy of all humankind) in philosophical and literary texts, such as in treatises on piracy and in novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Dashiell Hammett, Richard Wright, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mohsin Hamid...

..., people whose politics—racial, cultural, and otherwise—do not embarrass us” (14). The “we” to whom Ryan refers includes twenty-first-century readers as much as their nineteenth-century corollaries. Certainly, James Fenimore Cooper tarnished his reputation among moralizing nineteenth-century readers...

... Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Jacobs, and Fanny Fern. Her reading of Edgar Allan Poe stands out especially, belonging alongside the field’s best, such as those by Jonathan Elmer and Meredith McGill. Focusing on “The Man That Was Used Up” especially, Margolis establishes how...

... 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...

... to empire but as a method of promoting an idealistic version of it. The closing chapter’s compari- son between Flint and James Fenimore Cooper allows Doolen to make an important point about the absence of pre-Twain western writers from current criticism, and the distorted reading of northeastern writers...

... novelettes, James Rus- sell Lowell’s The Biglow Papers, and the antiwar sentiments of Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, and Emerson. The second discusses Guillermo Prieto’s “invasion poetry” and Nicolás Pizarro Suárez’s postwar novel El monedero (The Counterfeiter) (1861), and the final...

..., even as the latter became more and more related to technological advance throughout the nineteenth century. Early chapters on Almira Phelps, Sarah Hale, Catharine Beecher, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Elizabeth...

... 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...