American Abraham - James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch

Klappentext In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career. Zusammenfassung In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career! examining Cooper's interest in the pioneer patriachs who built new societies in the wilderness. Throughout his life Cooper explored the problem of achieving a balance between freedom and authority. Here Motley traces his preoccupation with authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Paradigmatic tensions; 2. Family origins and patriarchal designs; 3. Negotiating a place in the patriarchy; 4. The prairie and the family of an Ishmael; 5. Satanstoe; 6. The patriarch as isolato; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Motley
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1988
• EAN: 9780521327824
• ISBN: 978-0-521-32782-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies