Chainbearer Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts

Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.

About the author

Lance Schachterle is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. James P. Elliott is Professor of English at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Product details

• Authors: James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore/ Schachterle Cooper, James Fenimore (Stephen Arch) Cooper
• Assisted by: Lance Schachterle (Editor), James P. Elliott (Editor), James P Elliott (Editor), Elliott James P. (Editor), Schachterle Lance (Editor), John P. Mcwilliams (Introduction), Schachterle Lance (Introduction), Mott Wesley T. (Introduction)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2020
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781438480657
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8065-7
• Pages: 554
• Series: Writings of James Fenimore Coo; The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
• Subjects: Adventure, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary