{"product_id":"student-companion-to-james-fenimore-craig-white-9780313334139","title":"Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper","description":"The Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper At the dawn of America's continental empire, James Fenimore Cooper in the early 1800s became the new nation's first major novelist, inaugurating a great period in American literature and bequeathing a number of classic texts including the Leather-Stocking Tales. This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e to Cooper's writings appeals to high school and college students by outlining Cooper's most frequently assigned novels and establishing their historical backgrounds concerning American Indians and the early United States. Two opening chapters review the author's life and accomplishments, and another offers tips for managing Cooper's style and subject matter. Cooper's breakthrough novel \u003ci\u003eThe Spy\u003c\/i\u003e (1821), which features George Washington as a major actor, has a chapter of its own. The second half of the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the Leather-Stocking Tales, with one chapter on the overall saga and five chapters devoted to the individual novels in the series: \u003ci\u003eThe Deerslayer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last of the Mohicans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pathfinder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e. Altogether this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e shares the spirit of adventure that made Cooper a pioneer of American Romantic literature and his writings a perennial source for ideas and images of Native America, the frontier, and the early modern USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313334137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313334139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.34w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 300","brand":"Craig White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086480486655,"sku":"9780313334139","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ffdaf52-a14c-4490-a585-5748b376486e.jpg?v=1769094910","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/student-companion-to-james-fenimore-craig-white-9780313334139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}