The Double Chronology of Leatherstocking
- The Double Chronology of Leatherstocking
Richard Morton is professor of English at McMaster University. He has published “The Double Voice of Early American Literature” in this journal (1987), and his book Anne Sexton’s Poetry of Redemption was published by Mellen in 1988. He has an article on Elizabeth Elstob’s Rudiments of Grammar forthcoming in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and is at work on a monograph on Edward Taylor.
Notes
1. James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales, ed., Blake Nevius (New York, 1985), I, 1313. [All quotations are from Vols. I and II of this edition.]
2. A “killdeer” is the American ring-plover; Cooper does not use the pun.
3. James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, ed., Donald E. Pease (New York, 1987), xi.
4. James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Saga, ed., Allan Nevins [first published 1954] (New York, 1982).
5. See James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, ed. Richard Ditworth Rust (Albany, 1981), xv.
6. Paul A.W. Wallace, “Cooper’s Indians,” in James Fenimore Cooper: A Re-Appraisal (Cooperstown, 1954), 428.
7. Warren S. Walker, James Fenimore Cooper (New York, 1962), 30.
8. Kay Seymour House, Cooper’s Americans (Columbus, 1965), esp. Chapter XI, “The Making of Natty Bumppo.” See also her essay in this issue, 9–19.
9. James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer or the First Warpath, ed. Allan Nevins (New York, 1963), 535.
10. Cooper, The Deerslayer (1987), xxiii.
11. D.H. Lawrence, “Studies in Classic American Literature,” in Edmund Wilson, ed. The Shock of Recognition (London, 1956), 957.
12. William P. Kelly, Plotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales (Carbondale, 1983), 43.
13. Allan M. Axelrad, “The Order of the Leatherstocking Tales,” American Literature, LIV (1982), 189–211.
14. Leslie A Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel (New York, 1960), 149.
15. Warren Motley, The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch (Cambridge, 1987).
16. Malcolm Cowley, ed., The Portable Faulkner, rev. ed., (New York, 1967), xv.
17. M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist (Austin, 1981), 87–88.
18. John P. McWilliams, Jr., Political Justice Within a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s America (Berkeley, 1972), 288–289.
