FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2034852234> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2034852234 endingPage "289" @default.
• W2034852234 startingPage "263" @default.
• W2034852234 abstract "The Last of the Mohicans and the Missouri Crisis Bill Christophersen (bio) A sense of racial doom is present in this novel as it is in no other Leatherstocking tale. —George Dekker, James Fenimore Cooper: The American Scott James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826), set against the backdrop of a wilderness across which European powers and Native American tribes skirmish, famously dramatizes an episode from the French and Indian War. As the novel opens, a British major and his young female charges are traveling warily between forts. Guided by an Indian scout the major does not trust and who is behaving suspiciously, they become bewildered at dusk on “a narrow and blind . . . a dark and tangled path-way” (21–22). The dramatic situation alone conveys something of the Dantesque terror that defines this work about a colonial world riven by betrayals, ruthless warfare, and the violent winnowing of an indigenous people, a world in which civil usages seem quaint and Christian principles quixotic. Cooper’s world, of course—early-nineteenth-century America—though different in so many respects, was embroiled in its own dramas of ethnic violence, made anxious by its own racial nightmares. Indigenous tribes clung to homelands on the southern frontier—tribes the expanding republic skirmished with and, at the time Mohicans was published, verged on forcibly displacing. A concentrated population of black slaves waxed restive even as Congress sanctioned the expansion of slavery beyond the Mississippi. Confident though the nation was in some respects, it understood that the stakes concerning these social problems were high. Mohicans’ exploration of the “Indian problem,” as it was called, is manifest. John McWilliams has posited that, besides representing the decline of the Native American populations as a whole that had been taking place over generations, the novel constituted a response to the controversial Indian Removal legislation that James Monroe brought before Congress in 1825, which, when enacted five years later, banished eastern aboriginal tribes to [End Page 263] lands beyond the Mississippi River (102–03; 120). This essay, by contrast, speculates about the novel’s engagement with the era’s other racial conundrum, that “most dangerous of all questions,” as Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has called it—slavery (157). Starting from Ezra F. Tawil’s hypothesis that the frontier romance of the 1820s, by the very remoteness of its setting, “could engage issues central to the crisis of slavery without discussing it as such . . . and generate narrative solutions to political problems” (“Romancing History” 98), I suggest that Cooper’s French and Indian War drama resonates against the backdrop of two watershed national events that occurred during Monroe’s administration, the Missouri Crisis and the Denmark Vesey rebellion; that the specter of black insurrection hovers behind scenes of rampaging Hurons; and that the tiresome rescue sequence set in the Huron camp—a sequence critics typically downplay or treat ahistorically1—conveys a comic parable of emancipation and racial reconciliation. In developing this thesis, I try to peer not only through a historical lens but beyond it to the literary sleight of hand involved in representing race and racial anxieties in a republic that, by the mid-1820s, was waxing increasingly hysterical on the subject. From the early twentieth century on, critics have detailed Cooper’s lifelong engagement with the social issues of his time. His two primers on American mores and politics, Notions of the Americans (1828) and The American Democrat (1838), make that engagement plain, as do his novels Homeward Bound (1838) and Home as Found (1838), which deal with the excesses of Jacksonian democracy; the Littlepage trilogy (1845–46), which treats the Anti-Rent Rebellion in New York State; and two allegories—The Monikins (1835), which satirizes the British and American political and social systems, and The Crater (1847), a tale of a fallen utopia that constitutes, Donald A. Ringe has suggested, a parable of the United States in decline from republican glory and virtue (James Fenimore Cooper 130–31). The extent to which this engagement with social issues permeates the oeuvre has taken longer to establish, owing in part to midcentury critical trends. Cooper’s impulse toward social analysis had, in..." @default.
• W2034852234 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2034852234 creator A5080777307 @default.
• W2034852234 date "2011-01-01" @default.
• W2034852234 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W2034852234 title "<i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> and the Missouri Crisis" @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1503401484 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1507809617 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1523571327 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1528077598 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1544406615 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1545683387 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1549050088 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1563781913 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1586485065 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1968156425 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1972348757 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1974731659 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1982677472 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1988029976 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1989959153 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W1990843889 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2011167180 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2013309016 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2014665020 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2029633896 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2034888269 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2038752889 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2053613081 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W205396346 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2065681160 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2067667388 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2107928298 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2128156778 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2128683302 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2133573423 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2138490251 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2154582703 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2314457995 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2319329639 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2321527788 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2322293339 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2327292280 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2331123601 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2751031476 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W2799583938 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W568784040 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W569592339 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W584587410 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W599432887 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W607296192 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W614671710 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W623520984 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W629130166 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W632974344 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W656635943 @default.
• W2034852234 cites W588348148 @default.
• W2034852234 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2011.0020" @default.
• W2034852234 hasPublicationYear "2011" @default.
• W2034852234 type Work @default.
• W2034852234 sameAs 2034852234 @default.
• W2034852234 citedByCount "4" @default.
• W2034852234 countsByYear W20348522342014 @default.
• W2034852234 countsByYear W20348522342016 @default.
• W2034852234 countsByYear W20348522342017 @default.
• W2034852234 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2034852234 hasAuthorship W2034852234A5080777307 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C104317684 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C149923435 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C185592680 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C18903297 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C199033989 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C2778571376 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C2778677346 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C2908647359 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C531593650 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C55493867 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C55958113 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C56273599 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C67101536 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C81631423 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C86803240 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C104317684 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C124952713 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C142362112 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C144024400 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C149923435 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C166957645 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C17744445 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C185592680 @default.
• W2034852234 hasConceptScore W2034852234C18903297 @default.

• next