This essay examines James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans as an historical romance which recounts the struggle for control of the American continent first in the form of an historical romance centering on a central episode in the French and Indian War waged by the colonial powers of England and France and then, by shifting the action into the wilderness, as a mythic struggle between Euro-Americans and Native Americans which ends in the defeat of the indigeneous way of life which clears the way for a future dominated by white Americans.
"Fictional Design and Historical Vision in The Last of the Mohicans"
FARRANT, Winifred
1991-01-01
Abstract
This essay examines James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans as an historical romance which recounts the struggle for control of the American continent first in the form of an historical romance centering on a central episode in the French and Indian War waged by the colonial powers of England and France and then, by shifting the action into the wilderness, as a mythic struggle between Euro-Americans and Native Americans which ends in the defeat of the indigeneous way of life which clears the way for a future dominated by white Americans.
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