James Fenimore Cooper, the nation's first major novelist, describes the relationships between Native Americans and early United States citizens, in his works, most notably the Leather-Stocking Tales and Last of the Mohicans.
Craig White is an associate professor of literature at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he teaches classic and multicultural American and world literature. His articles on American literature, the history of science, and Native American literature have appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Prospects, Utopian Studies, and Early American Literature.
Literature professor White introduces students and general readers
to the major works of American novelist James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851). Each book in the series of The Leather-Stocking Tales
gets its own chapter here, as does Cooper's breakthrough novel, The
Spy. White also describes Cooper's life and literary
accomplishments and discusses the special challenges and rewards
his peculiar style creates for readers. The volume concludes with
an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
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