{"product_id":"9780404644734","title":"Leather-Stocking Redux, or, Old Tales, New Essays","description":"The ten original essays in this collection, all by internationally known Cooper scholars, offer fresh and original insights into the five Leather-Stocking Tales: \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneers\u003c\/i\u003e (1823), \u003ci\u003eThe Last of the Mohicans\u003c\/i\u003e (1826), \u003ci\u003eThe Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e (1827), \u003ci\u003eThe Pathfinder\u003c\/i\u003e (1840), and \u003ci\u003eThe Deerslayer\u003c\/i\u003e (1841). Treating the novels individually or commenting on the series as a whole, the contributors address such issues as race, gender, and ethnicity in Cooper's world and their relationship to ours, as well as scholarly responses to the politics and economics of the early Republic and discussions of the nature of American frontier society in the first half of the nineteenth century.\u003cp\u003eMore specifically, the essays treat race-mixing and the Africanist presence in the Leather-Stocking Tales; Cooper's role as popular novelist; virtue ethics, literature, and life; Cooper's portrait of the American man of leisure; the presence of the grotesque in his fiction; and the marketing context of Cooper's \"sixth\" Leather-Stocking Tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntended to be used as a companion to a study of Cooper and his Leather-Stocking novels, this collection of lively, informative, and readable essays will encourage serious contemporary discussion of America's first successful-and at one time most popular-novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMS Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008536756464,"sku":"9780404644734","price":97.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780404644734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}