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Keywords
Cooper, James Fenimore, --1789-1851--Pioneers; Cooper, James Fenimore, --1789-1851--Political and social views; Cooper, James Fenimore, --1789-1851; American literature--19th century--History and criticism; American literature; Political and social views; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc;
Abstract
Liberal humanist critics of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers have for a long time relegated this politically packed nineteenth-century novel to the realms of the romantic. In the course of this study, I intend to show that Cooper's romantic discourse in The Pioneers is not "innocently romantic" as these critics have postulated. To argue for the political, national, racial, and imperial unconscious of The Pioneers as the latent, but active discourse throughout this text, I rely upon the materialist theories of Fredric Jameson, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton, Homi Bhabha, Benedict Anderson, and Edward Said.
Year of Submission
2002
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of English Language and Literature
First Advisor
Julie Husband
Second Advisor
Anne Myles
Third Advisor
Scott Cawelti
Date Original
2002
Object Description
1 PDF file (140 leaves)
Copyright
©2002 Nizar Farouk Hermes
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hermes, Nizar Farouk, "Political, National, Racial, and Imperial Unconscious in James Fenimore Cooper’s the Pioneers" (2002). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2924.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2924
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