Essays about: "James Fenimore Cooper"
Found 2 essays containing the words James Fenimore Cooper.
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1. Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical gender roles and norms. It does this by first looking at how literature has been employed by others to teach history with pedagogical goals in mind, followed by examining gender roles from the period the novel has as its setting, including the period the novel itself was written in. READ MORE
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2. Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. READ MORE
