Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Paradigmatic Tensions: The American Abraham and The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- 2 Family Origins and Patriarchal Designs
- 3 Negotiating a Place in the Patriarchy: Literary Style and the Transfer of Power
- 4 The Prairie and the Family of an Ishmael
- 5 Satanstoe: The Paradigm of Change and Continuity
- 6 The Patriarch as Isolato: In Control from Creation to Apocalypse
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Paradigmatic Tensions: The American Abraham and The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- 2 Family Origins and Patriarchal Designs
- 3 Negotiating a Place in the Patriarchy: Literary Style and the Transfer of Power
- 4 The Prairie and the Family of an Ishmael
- 5 Satanstoe: The Paradigm of Change and Continuity
- 6 The Patriarch as Isolato: In Control from Creation to Apocalypse
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- The American AbrahamJames Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988