Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper

"Offers techniques for teaching the novels of James Fenimore Cooper in undergraduate and graduate classrooms, including considerations of American identity, American Indians, Native Americans, Indigenous American poetics, race, detective fiction, media history, film adaptations, environmentalism, environmental apocalypse, animal studies, cross-culturalism, and the French and Indian Wars"--

Summary

Offers students bridges to James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, which grapple with complex moral issues that are still crucial today. Engaging with film adaptations, cross-culturalism, animal studies, media history, environmentalism, and Indigenous American poetics, the essays offer new ways to bring these novels to life in the classroom.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephen Carl Arch (Editor), John Miller (Editor), Keat Murray (Editor), Julie Wilhelm (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781603294201
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-420-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias