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The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Warren Motley
The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Warren Motley
In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career, examining Cooper's interest in the pioneer patriachs who built new societies in the wilderness. Throughout his life Cooper explored the problem of achieving a balance between freedom and authority. Here Motley traces his preoccupation with authority.
200 pages, notes, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 29, 1988 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521327824 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 200 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 237 × 19 mm · 454 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Gelpi, Albert |
| Series Editor | Posnock, Ross |