• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • English Master’s Theses
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • English Master’s Theses
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of SUNY Open Access RepositoryCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentAuthor ProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Campus Communities in SOAR

    Alfred State CollegeBrockportBroomeCantonDownstateEmpireFredoniaMaritimeNew PaltzOneontaOptometryOswegoPlattsburghSUNY Polytechnic InstituteSUNY Office of Community Colleges and the Education PipelineSUNY PressUpstate Medical

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Land, Law and Faith: Discourses of Liberty in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Crater

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    eng_theses/70/fulltext (1).pdf
    Size:
    909.2Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Average rating
     
       votes
    Cast your vote
    You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
    Star rating
     
    Your vote was cast
    Thank you for your feedback
    Author
    Tiffin, Lisa M.
    Keyword
    James Fenimore Cooper
    Political Views
    Social Views
    Date Published
    2002-05-18
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/6216
    Abstract
    This thesis deals with James Fenimore Cooper's beliefs regarding the strengths and weaknesses of American democracy as expressed through his fiction. While many critics feel Cooper's belief in the American system soured in his later years, this thesis seeks to prove he not only remained consistent in his views, but that those views, while at times critical of American politics, were largely optimistic. This thesis will focus on two early novels, The Pioneers (1823), and The Last of the Mohicans (1826), as well as one of Cooper’s last novels, The Crater (1847). In both the early novels as well as in The Crater, Cooper seeks to display the weaknesses in the American systems of democracy and capitalism through discussions centering on the land and the law. In both The Pioneers, and Mohicans, Cooper focuses on the ownership of the land and its resources as well as on the right to make laws and govern one's own destiny. In The Crater, Cooper endorses his belief in America's governmental and economic systems, as well as clarifies his fears if those systems go unchecked. As well, Cooper offers in The Crater a unique solution of faith as a way to check potential abuses while protecting the integrity of liberty. Cooper's optimism is shown through his belief that his criticism of capitalism and demagoguery, while not always understood or well-received, were necessary in order to preserve a nation he felt had great strength and potential.
    Collections
    English Master’s Theses

    entitlement

     

    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.