FOR FURTHER READING
Other Works by James Fenimore Cooper
Precaution (1820)
The Spy (1821)
The Pilot (1823)
The Pioneers (1823)
Lionel Lincoln (1825)
The Prairie (1827)
The Red Rover (1827)
Notions of the Americans (1828)
The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829)
The Water-Witch (1830)
The Bravo (1831)
The Heidenmauer (1832)
The Headsman (1833)
The Monikins (1835)
The American Democrat (1838)
Homeward Bound (1838)
Home as Found (1838)
The Pathfinder (1840)
The Deerslayer (1841)
Satanstoe (1845)
The Chainbearer (1845)
The Redskins (1846)
Biography
Beard, James Franklin, ed. The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper. 6 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960-1968.
Dekker, George. James Fenimore Cooper: The American Scott. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967.
Grossman, James. James Fenimore Cooper. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949.
Railton, Stephen. Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Spiller, Robert. Fenimore Cooper: Critic of His Time. New York: Minton, Balch, 1931.
Studies of the Leatherstocking Tales
Barker, Martin, and Roger Sabin. The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion Books, 1960.
Kelly, William P. Plotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales. Carbon-dale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature. 1923. Reprint: New York: Viking, 1964.
McWilliams, John. “The Last of the Mohicans”: Civil Savagery and Savage Civility. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
Peck, H. Daniel, ed. New Essays on “The Last of the Mohicans.” Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Rans, Geoffrey. Cooper’s Leather-stocking Novels: A Secular Reading. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Historical Contexts for The Last of the Mohicans
Frazier, Patrick. The Mohicans of Stockbridge. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
Maddox, Lucy. Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Rogin, Michael. Fathers and Children:Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950.
VanDerBeets, Richard, ed. Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.