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"The guardian of the law" : authority and identity in James Fenimore Cooper

Print Book, English, ©1990
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, ©1990
viii, 151 pages ; 24 cm
9780271007083, 0271007087
21117698
"A parental affection": law and identity in Cooper's America
A lawful rebellion: The spy (1821) and Lionel Lincoln (1825)
"Thou thyself shall be the judge": The pioneers (1823)
The law of the sea: The red rover (1827) and The two admirals (1842)
The final appeal: The European fiction and the Littlepage Trilogy
Coda: The ways of the hour (1850)