James Fenimore Cooper
Articles
- Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word ‘pioneer’ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913) and Katharine Susannah Prichard’s The Pioneers (1915). The three novels, although moving widely across time…
1 June 2016 - Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures
While Babes in the Bush is an artefact of Federation nationalism, the original serial, An Australian Squire, belongs to an earlier, pre-Federation era of colonial writing. That fine distinction is germane to my purpose in this essay, which explores…
31 October 2015