The historical paradoxes of manhood in Cooper's 'The Deerslayer.'

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It is argued that author James Fenimore Cooper's novel 'The Deerslayer' is a self-conscious, culturally embedded examination of the notion of manhood in the 19th century despite its setting in an apparently asocial wilderness in 1740. Cooper's complex representation of manliness in his novel is analyzed by interpreting the work against two intersecting historical backgrounds, namely, its 18th-century setting and the 19th-century period of its composition and reception.

Masculinity, The Deerslayer (Book)

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The geography of violence: historical fiction and the national question

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Violence in Romantic novels is currently interpreted as reflective of racism, imperialism, and sexual exploitation, but there is another possibility. Works such as Walter Scott's 'Quentin Durward' and James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Last of the Mohicans' used violence as a fantasy that has helped produce modern literary consciousness.

Critical Essay, Violence, Violence in literature, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period), The Last of the Mohicans (Novel), Scott, Walter (British novelist)

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Melancholy, race, and sovereign exemption in early American fiction

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The author analyzes the dynamics of mourning and melancholy in Anglophone Atlantic Romanticism. He draws upon John Neal's novel Logan, The Mingo Chief: A Family History to illustrate the concepts of mourning and melancholy in early national America which were conditioned by conflict over the land.

Evaluation, Works, Melancholy, Logan (Novel), American romanticism, Neal, John

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