Agrégation externe 2016 James Fenimore Cooper, The Last

Agrégation externe 2016
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
(Ronan Ludot-Vlasak et Cécile Roudeau)
Remarque : cette bibliographie se veut sélective. Nous remercions Nathalie Caron et MarieJeanne Rossignol pour leur contribution aux sections 2b et 2c, ainsi qu’Agnès Derail pour sa
relecture et ses conseils.
Les préparateurs/trices pourront opportunément consulter le site de la James Fenimore
Cooper Society, qui contient de nombreuses références bibliographiques ainsi que des travaux
critiques en ligne (http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/)
1) TEXTES DE COOPER
a) Édition au programme
COOPER, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans, with an Introduction, Historical
essay, and Notes by John McWilliams, Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.
b) Préfaces et postfaces d’autres éditions
BEARD, James F., “Afterword” to The Last of the Mohicans, New York, New American
Library, 1985.
SLOTKIN, Richard, Preface to The Last of the Mohicans, New York, Penguin Books, 1986.
c) Autres textes de Cooper
The American Democrat and other Political Writings, Bradley J. Birzer & John Willson, eds.,
Washington D. C., Regnery Publishing, 2000 (inclut notamment Notions of the Americans).
Early Critical Essays, by James Fenimore Cooper, James Franklin Beard, ed., Gainesville,
Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, 1955.
The Deerslayer (1841), Donald Pease, ed., New York / London, Penguin Books, 1987.
The Pathfinder (1840), William P. Kelly, ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Pioneers (1823), James D. Wallace, ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Prairie (1827), Donald A. Ringe, ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
d) Textes de contemporains
CASS, Lewis, “Indians of North America,” North American Review 22 (1826), p. 53-119.
CHILD, Lydia Maria, Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians, Carolyn L. Karcher, ed.,
New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1986 (1824).
COLE, Thomas, “Essay on the American Scenery,” American Monthly Magazine 1 (January
1836).
DWIGHT, Timothy, Travels in New England and New York, Cambridge, Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1969 (1821).
HECKEWELDER, John, History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once
Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States, Philadelphia, Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, 1990 (1819).
JACKSON, Andrew, First Annual Message to Congress (December 1829), consultable à
partir du lien suivant: http://www.presidency.ucsp.edu/ws/?pid=29471
JACKSON, Andrew, Second Annual Message to Congress (December 1830), consultable à
partir du lien suivant: http://www.presidency.ucsp.edu/ws/?pid=29472
RIDGE, John, “Essay on Cherokee Civilization” (1826), in D. McQuade et al., ed., Harper
Anthology of American Literature, New York, Harper and Row, 1987 p. 730-737.
SCOTT, Walter, Waverley; or Sixty Years Since, New York / London, Viking Penguin, 1988
(1814).
SEDGWICK, Catharine Maria, Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, Mary
Kelley, ed., New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1986 (1827).
2) APPROCHES CONTEXTUELLES
Remarque : les ouvrages historiques sur les Amérindiens figurent au début de la section
10.
a) Réception et héritage de l’œuvre de Cooper
BARKER, Martin & Roger Sabin, The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American
Myth, Jackson, University of Mississippi Press, 1995 (sur les récritures et les adaptations
filmiques, télévisuelles, ou sous forme de romans graphiques).
DEKKER, George & John P. Williams, eds, James Fenimore Cooper: The Critical Heritage,
London / New York, Routledge, 1997 (1973), p. 89-119 (comprend une sélection de textes
critiques écrits du vivant de Cooper).
GARDINER, W. H., “Cooper’s Novels,” North American Review 23, (July 1826), p. 150-201.
McWILLIAMS John, ed., “The Historical Contexts of The Last of the Mohicans,” in J. F.
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 1990,
p. 355-63.
PEASE, Donald, “Visionary Compacts and the Cold War Consensus,” in Visionary
Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, Madison, University of
Wisconsin Press, 1987, p. 3-48.
WALKER, Warren S., ed., Leatherstocking and the Critics, Chicago, Scott, Foresman &
Company, 1965 (comprend une sélection de textes critiques, certains écrits du temps de
Cooper, d’autres représentatifs de la tradition critique de la première moitié du XXe siècle).
WALLACE, James D., Early Cooper and His Audience, New York, Columbia University
Press, 1986.
b) Sur le contexte diégétique du roman
* ANDERSON, Fred, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and
Indian War, New York, Viking, 2005.
---, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America,
1754-1766, London, Faber, 2000.
HAVARD, Gilles & Mickaël AUGERON, dir., Un Continent en partage. Cinq siècles de
rencontres entre Amérindiens et Français, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2013.
PARKMAN, Francis, Montcalm and Wolfe, France and England in North America, ii, New
York, The Library of America, 1983 (1884).
STEELE, Ian K., Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre,” Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1990.
TAYLOR, Alan, American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800, London,
Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 2002 (2001).
VAN RYUMBEKE, Bertrand, L’Amérique avant les États-Unis. Une histoire de l’Amérique
anglaise – 1497-1776, Paris, Flammarion, 2013.
c) Sur les premières décennies du XIXe siècle américain
HOWE, Daniel Walker, What Hath God Wrought. The Transformation of America 18151848, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.
MARIENSTRAS, Élise, Les mythes fondateurs de la nation américaine, Paris, Maspero,
1976.
ONUF, Peter, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, Charlottesville,
The University Press of Virginia, 2000.
ROSSIGNOL, Marie-Jeanne, Le Ferment nationaliste. Aux origines de la politique extérieure
des États-Unis (1789-1812), Paris, Belin, 1997.
WULF, Naomi, « Biographie et histoire dans la jeune République », Transatlantica [En
ligne], 1 | 2002, mis en ligne le 30 juin 2006, consulté le 26 juin 2015. URL :
http://transatlantica.revues.org/392 (Naomi Wulf consacre tout un passage au livre d’Alan
Taylor mentionné dans la section 3 a).
3) TRAVAUX GÉNÉRAUX SUR COOPER
a) Travaux biographiques
CHARVAT, William, “Cooper as Professional Author,” New York History 35 (October
1954), p. 496-511.
COOPER S. F., The Cooper Gallery, or Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James
Fenimore Cooper, New York, J. Muller, 1865, p. 121-141 (texte écrit par la fille de Cooper,
consultable sur hathitrust.org).
COOPER, S. F., “Small Family Memories,” in J. F. Cooper (grandson), ed., Correspondence
of James Fenimore Cooper, 2 vol., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1922, p. 7-72
(consultable sur le site de la Cooper Society).
* FRANKLIN, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, New Haven, Yale
University Press, 2007.
GROSSMAN, James, James Fenimore Cooper: A Biographical and Critical Study, Stanford
University Press, 1949 (reissued 1967).
CLAVEL, Marcel, Fenimore Cooper : Sa Vie et son œuvre. La jeunesse (1789-1826), Aix-enProvence, Imprimerie Universitaire de Provence, 1938.
RAILTON, Stephen, Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 1978.
TAYLOR, Alan, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early
American Republic, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 (principalement sur le père de J. F.
Cooper).
b) Bibliographie
DYER, Alan Frank, James Fenimore Cooper. An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, New
York, Greenwood Press, 1991.
c) Regards de quelques écrivains sur l’œuvre de Cooper
LAWRENCE D. H., “Studies in Classic American Literature. (V) Fenimore Cooper’s
Leatherstocking Novels,” English Review 28 (March 1919), p. 204-219.
TWAIN, Mark, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” The North American Review 161
(July 1895), p. 1-12.
---, “Cooper’s Prose Style,” (1895) in Letters from the Earth, By Clemens, Bernard de Voto,
ed., New York, Harper and Row, 1962, p. 117-124.
d) Études générales sur l’œuvre de Cooper
CLARK, Robert, ed., James Fenimore Cooper: New Critical Essays, London / Totowa (NJ),
Vision Press and Barnes & Noble, 1985.
DEKKER, George, James Fenimore Cooper: The Novelist, London, Routledge & Kegan
Paul, 1967.
FIELDS, Wayne, ed., James Fenimore Cooper: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
HOUSE, Kay Seymour, Cooper’s Americans, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1965.
HUTSON, Richard, “1826: Natty Bumppo Returns in The Last of The Mohicans: Cooper’s
Leatherstocking Tales,” in Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, eds., A New Literary History of
America, Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 2009, p. 182-187.
KELLY, William P., Plotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking
Tales, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
* McWILLIAMS, John P., Jr., Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s
America, Berkeley / London, University of California Press, 1972.
MACDOUGALL, Hugh C., James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art 13, Oneonta
NY, State University College of New York, 2002.
MOTLEY, Warren, The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier
Patriarch, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
PARKER, Hershel, “The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper: an Essay Review,” University
of Mississippi Studies in English n.s. 5 (1984-1987), p. 110-119.
* PERSON, Leland S., ed., A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper, New York,
Oxford University Press, 2007.
RANS, Geoffrey, Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading, Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
RINGE, Donald, James Fenimore Cooper, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1962.
SCHLECKEL, Susan, “‘In the land of his fathers’: Cooper, Land, and the Legitimation of
American National Identity,” in W.M Verhoeven, ed., James Fenimore Cooper: New
Historical and Literary Contexts, Amsterdam / Atlanta, Rodopi, 1993, p. 125-150.
SPILLER, Robert E., Fenimore Cooper: Critic of His Times, New York, Russell and Russell,
1963 (1931).
TAYLOR, Alan, “Fenimore Cooper’s America,” History Today 46. 2 (February 1996), p. 2127.
WALKER, Jeffrey, ed., Leather-Stocking Redux; or Old Tales, New Essays, New York, AMS
Press, 2011.
WAPLES, Dorothy, The Whig Myth of James Fenimore Cooper, New Haven, Yale
University Press, 1938.
WATTS, Steven, « Visions ténébreuses d’un œil de verre: James Fenimore Cooper ou la
mémoire trahie », in Élise Marienstras et Marie-Jeanne Rossignol dir., Mémoire privée,
mémoire collective dans l’Amérique pré-industrielle, Paris, Berg International, 1994, p. 191210.
ZOELLNER, Robert H., “Conceptual Ambivalence in Cooper’s Leatherstocking,” American
Literature 31 (January 1960), p. 397-420.
On pourra également consulter les études suivantes sur la fiction américaine
(publiées entre 1900 et la fin des années 1960) qui consacrent des pages à
Cooper :
CABAU, Jacques, La Prairie perdue : le roman américain, Paris, Seuil, 1981 (1966)
(notamment p. 18-24 : « La prairie romanesque »).
LEWIS, R. W. B., The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth
Century, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1955, p. 98-105.
PATTEE, Fred Lewis, “Critical Studies in American Literature. VI. The Historical Romance:
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans,” Chautauquan 31 (June 1900), p. 287-292.
PORTE, Joel, The Romance in America: Studies on Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and
James, Middletown (Conn.), Wesleyan University Press, 1969, p. 3-62.
4) RECUEILS CONSACRÉS À THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
* McWILLIAMS, John P., The Last of the Mohicans : Civil Savagery and Savage Civility,
New York, Twayne Publishers / Maxwell Macmillan International, 1995.
* PECK, H. Daniel, ed., New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans, Cambridge / New York,
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
5) ÉCRITURE DE L’HISTOIRE, LA ROMANCE HISTORIQUE
a) Sur l’œuvre de Cooper
AXELRAD, Allan M., History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore
Cooper,
Norwood,
PA,
Norwood
Editions,
1978
(version
en
ligne:
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/utopia.html ).
* FIEDLER, Leslie, “James Fenimore Cooper and the Historical Romance,” in Love and
Death in the American Novel, New York, Scarborough House, 1982 (1960), chapitre 7.
HOUSE, Kay Semour, “Cooper as Historian,” in George A. Test, ed., James Fenimore
Cooper: His Country and His Art, Papers from the 1986 Conference at State University
College of New York, Oneonta and Cooperstown, NY, State University College of New York
1986, p. 1-13.
KELLY, William P., “Inventing American History: Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales,”
CUNY English Forum 1, Saul N. Brody, ed., New York, AMS, 1985, p. 359-379.
PUDALOFF, Ross J., “Cooper’s Genres and American Problems,” ELH 50 (1983), p. 711727.
SWANN, Charles, “James Fenimore Cooper: Historical Novelist,” in Richard Gray, ed.,
American Fictions: New Readings, London, Vision, 1983, p. 15-37.
b) Sur The Last of the Mohicans
BUTLER, Michael D., “Narrative Structure and Historical Process in The Last of the
Mohicans,” American Literature 48 (May 1976), p. 117-139.
DEAN, Janet, “Stopping Traffic: Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the
Mohicans,” in Susan Strehle & Mani Patricia Carden, eds., Double Plots : Romance and
History, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2003, p. 45-67.
KELLY, William P., “‘A Man without a Cross: Mohicans and the Cyclic Course of Empire,”
in Plotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales, Carbondale,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1983, p. 45-84.
MILDER, Robert, “The Last of the Mohicans and New World Fall,” American Literature 52
(November 1980), p. 407-429.
PHILBRICK, Thomas, “The Last of the Mohicans and the Sounds of Discord,” American
Literature 43 (March 1971), p. 25-41.
PITCHER, E. W., “Cooper’s Cunning and Heyward as Cunning-Man in The Last of the
Mohicans,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 9. 1
(Winter 1996), p. 10-17.
ROSE, Marilyn Gaddis, “Time Discrepancy in The Last of the Mohicans,” American Notes
and Queries 8 (January 1970), p. 72-73.
SUNDAHL, Daniel J., “Details and Defects: Historical Peculiarities in The Last of the
Mohicans,” Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities, 1986, p. 33-46.
6) INFLUENCES LITTERAIRES, SOURCES
DEKKER, George, James Fenimore Cooper: The American Scott, New York, Barnes and
Noble, 1967.
FRIDEN, Georg, James Fenimore Cooper and Ossian, Upsala, The American Institute of the
University of Upsala, 1949.
GATES, W. B., “Cooper’s Indebtedness to Shakespeare,” Publications of the Modern
Language Association 67 (9/1952), p. 716-731.
McALEER, John, “Biblical Analogy in the Leatherstocking Tales,” Nineteenth-Century
Fiction 17 (December 1962), p. 217-235.
McWILLIAMS, John P., Jr, The American Epic 1770-1869: Transforming a Genre,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 136-144.
PHILBRICK, Thomas, “The Sources of Cooper’s Knowledge of Fort William Henry,”
American Literature 36 (May 1964), p. 209-214.
PITCHER, E. W., “The ‘Hapless Babes’ of the Frontier: Ovid, ‘The History of Maria Kittle,’
and The Last of the Mohicans,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and
Reviews 13. 3, (Summer 2000), p. 33-37.
RICHARDSON, Donna, “A Man without a Cross: Cooper’s Romantic Revision of Paradise
Lost in The Last of the Mohicans,” in Steven Harthorn & Hugh Mac Dougall, eds., James
Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Oneonta, NY, State University of New York at
Oneonta, p. 89-93 (consultable sur le site de la James Fenimore Cooper Society).
RINGE, Donald A., “The Last of the Mohicans as a Gothic Novel,” in George A. Test, ed.,
James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Oneonta, NY, State University College of
New York at Oneonta, 1987, p. 41-53 (consultable sur le site de la James Fenimore Cooper
Society).
STEELE, Ian K., “Cooper and Clio: The Sources for ‘A Narrative of 1757,’” The Canadian
Review of American Studies 20 (1989), p. 121-35.
TODD, Emily B., “Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States: Walter Scott’s
Novels and the Early Nineteenth-Century American Publishing Industry,” Book History 12
(2009), p. 100-128.
VANDIVER, Edward P., Jr., “James Fenimore Cooper and Shakespeare,” Shakespeare
Association Bulletin 15 (April 1940), p. 110-117.
7) LA LANGUE DE COOPER
BLAKEMORE, Steven, “Strange Tongues: Cooper’s Fiction of Language in The Last of the
Mohicans,” Early American Literature 19 (Spring 1984), p. 21-41.
GANTER, Granville, “Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in Cooper’s Last of the
Mohicans,” James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers 9 (August 1997), p. 7-13.
HELLER, Louis G., “Two Pequot Names in American Literature,” American Speech 36
(February 1961), p. 54-67.
HERNDL, Diane Price, “Style and the Sentimental Gaze in The Last of the Mohicans,”
Narrative 9. 3 (October 2001), p. 259-82.
KALTER, Susan, “The Last of the Mohicans as Contemporary Theory: James Fenimore
Cooper’s Philosophy of Language,” James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers
11 (August 1999), p. 1-14.
KOWALESKI, Michael, Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993, p. 63-81.
KRUMREY, Diane, “‘Your Ear Shall Drink No Lie’: Articulating the American Voice in The
Last of the Mohicans,” Language and Literature 22 (1997), p. 45-61.
POIRIER, Richard, A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature, New
York, Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 71-77.
ROSENWALD, Lawrence, “The Last of the Mohicans and the Languages of America,”
College English 60. 1 (Jan 1998), p. 9-30.
8) LA NATURE, LA FRONTIERE, LE PAYSAGE
a) Travaux sur Cooper
CAWELTI, John G., “Cooper and the Frontier Myth and Anti-Myth,” in W. M. Verhoeven,
ed., James Fenimore Cooper: New Historical and Literary Contexts, Amsterdam / Atlanta,
Editions Rodopi, 1993, p. 151-160.
FRANKLIN, Wayne, The New World of James Fenimore Cooper, Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 1982.
KOLODNY, Annette, Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American
Life and Letters, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1975, p. 89-115 (“Natty
Bumppo as The American Dream: The Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper”).
MARSHALL, Ian, “Cooper’s ‘Course of Empire’: Mountains and the Rise and Fall of
American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers,” in George A.
Test ed., James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Oneonta, NY, State University
of New York at Oneonta, 1991, p. 55-66.
MARTIN, Terence, “Surviving on the Frontier: The Doubled Consciousness of Natty
Bumppo,” South Atlantic Quarterly 65 (Fall 1976), p. 447-459.
MILLER, Angela, The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural
Politics, 1825-1875, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993.
NEVIUS, Blake, Cooper’s Landscapes: An Essay on the Picturesque Vision, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1976.
* NEWMAN, Russell T., The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the
Works of James Fenimore Cooper, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2003.
NOBLE, David, “Cooper, Leatherstocking and the Death of the American Adam,” American
Quarterly 16 (Fall 1964), p. 419-431.
NOBLE, David, The External Adam and the New World Garden; the Central Myth in the
American Novel since 1830, New York, George Brazillier, 1968, p. 1-47.
PECK, H. Daniel, A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper’s Fiction, New Haven,
Yale University Press, 1977.
---, “James Fenimore Cooper and the Writers of the Frontier,” in Emory Elliot, ed., Columbia
Literary History of the United States, New York, Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 240261.
REDEKOP, Ernest Henry, “Picturesque and Pastoral: Two Views of Cooper’s Landscapes,”
Canadian Review of American Studies 8 (Fall 1977), p. 184-205.
RINGE, Donald, “Chiaroscuro as an Artistic Device in Cooper’s Fiction,” MLA Publications
78 (September 1963), p. 349-357.
---, “James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole: An Analogous Technique,” American
Literature 30 (1958), p. 28-36.
---, The Pictorial Mode: Space and Time in the Art of Bryant, Irving and Cooper, Lexington,
University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
* SLOTKIN, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American
Frontier, 1600-1860, Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan UP, 1973 [chapter 11: “Society and
Solitude: The Frontier Myth and Romantic Literature, 1795-1825”, chapter 12: “The
Fragmented Image: The Boone Myth and Sectional Cultures, 1820-1850”, chapter 13: “Man
Without a Cross: The Leatherstocking Myth (1823-1841).”
SMITH, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, Cambridge,
MA, Harvard University Press, 1950, p. 59-70.
TANNER, Tony, Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1987, p. 1-24 (surtout les premières pages).
VALTIALA, Kaarle-Juhani (Nalle), James Fenimore Cooper’s Landscapes in the LeatherStocking Tales and other Forest Tales, Helsinki, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters,
1998.
b) Sur The Last of the Mohicans
BLAKEMORE, Steven, “‘Without a Cross’: The Cultural Significance of the Sublime and
Beautiful in Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 52 (June
1997), p. 27-57.
MARTIN, Terence, “Leatherstocking and the Frontier: Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans,”
in Hans Galinsky, ed., The Frontier in American History and Literature: Essays and
Interpretations, Frankfurt, Verlag Mortiz Diesterweg, 1962, p. 49-64.
MAZEL, David, “Performing the Wilderness in The Last of the Mohicans,” in John
Tallmadge & Henry Harrington, eds., Reading under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in
Ecocriticism, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2000, p. 101-115.
9) ÉTUDES DE GENRE
BAYM, Nina, “The Women of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales,” American Quarterly 23
(December 1971), p. 696-709.
COBY, James L., “Crisis-Dictated Gender Roles in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the
Mohicans,” Explicator (January-March 2014), p. 32-33.
HABERLY, David T., “Women and Indians: The Last of the Mohicans and the Captivity
Tradition,” American Quarterly 28 (Fall 1976), p. 431-443.
JORDAN, Cynthia S., Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early
American Fictions, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1989 [Chapter 4: “Two
Sides to Every Story: Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans”].
OPFERMANN, Susanne, “Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria
Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender,” in Karen L. Kilcup, ed., Soft Canons:
American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press,
1999, p. 27-47.
RIFKIN, Mark, When did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and
Native Sovereignty, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011 [Chapter 1: “Reproducing the
Indian: Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and
Last of the Mohicans”].
SHIELDS, Juliet, “Savage and Scott-ish Masculinity in The Last of the Mohicans and The
Prairie: James Fenimore Cooper and the Diasporic Origins of American Identity,”
Nineteenth-Century Literature 64. 2 (September 2009), p. 137-162.
WEGENER, Signe O., James Fenimore Cooper versus the Cult of Domesticity: Progressive
Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels, Jefferson, NC, McFarland and Co., 2005.
10) AMÉRINDIENS / ETHNICITÉ
a) Travaux généraux sur les Amérindiens
BRANTLINGER, Patrick, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races,
1800-1930, Ithaca / London, Cornell University Press, 2003.
MADDOX, Lucy, Removals: Nineteenth Century American Literature and The Politics of
Indian Affairs, New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.
* PEARCE, Roy Harvey, Savagism and Civilization, rev. ed., Baltimore, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1965 (1953) (p. 200-212 sur l’œuvre de Cooper).
ROGIN, Michael, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the
American Indian, New York, Knopf, 1975.
ROSSIGNOL, Marie-Jeanne, « Mémorialistes de la prairie perdue : les naturalistes dans
l’Ouest américain 1789-1830 », in Élise Marienstras et Marie-Jeanne Rossignol dir., Mémoire
privée, mémoire collective dans l’Amérique pré-industrielle, Paris, Berg International, 1994,
p. 211-223.
WHITE, Richard, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region 1650-1815, Cambridge / New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991 (surtout
l’introduction).
b) Sur Cooper
ALLEN, Dennis W., “‘By All the Truth of Signs’: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the
Mohicans,” Studies in American Fiction 9 (Fall 1981), p. 159-179.
AXELRAD, Allan M., “The Last of the Mohicans, Race Mixing, and America’s Destiny,” in
Jeffrey Walker, ed., Leather-Stocking Redux; or Old Tales, New Essays, New York, AMS
Press, 2011, p. 33-56.
BRANTLINGER, Patrick, “Forgetting Genocide: Or, The Last of The Last of the Mohicans,”
Cultural Studies 12 (January 1998), p. 15-30.
BROWN, Harry, “‘The Horrid Alternative’: Miscegenation in the Frontier Romance,”
Journal of American Culture 24 (Fall-Winter 2001), p. 137-151.
CHRISTOPHERSEN, Bill, “The Last of the Mohicans and the Missouri Crisis,” Early
American Literature 46. 2 (2011), p. 263-289.
CLARK, Robert, “‘The Last of the Mohicans’: The Last of the Iroquois,” in History, Ideology
and Myth in American Fiction. 1823-1852, New York, St Martin’s Press, 1984, p. 79-95.
DARNELL, Donald, “Uncas as a Hero: The ‘Ubi Sunt’ Formula in The Last of the
Mohicans,” American Literature 37 (November 1965), p. 259-266.
DEAN, Janet, “Stopping Traffic: Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the
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