
The Prairie
James Fenimore Cooper(Author)
The Belknap Press
Published on 17. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-674-05794-4 (ISBN)
Description
The action of James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie (1827) unfolds against the backdrop of the grasslands beyond the Mississippi, just after the Louisiana Purchase, in the early days of western expansion. It features Cooper's most celebrated literary creation, Natty Bumppo, now aged and reduced to making a living by trapping. As the frontiersman's epic journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific nears its end in a vast and still uninhabited region that Cooper consistently imagines as an ocean of the interior, nothing less than the future identity of America is at stake, Domhnall Mitchell suggests in his Introduction.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of the novel from The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, published by the State University of New York Press.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of the novel from The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, published by the State University of New York Press.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05794-4 (9780674057944)
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie
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Persons
Domhnall Martin Mitchell is Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.