Literature in the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries

The series presents peer-reviewed studies on literature in the US from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the death of novelist James Fenimore Cooper in 1851. Nine essays explore such topics as Martha Meredith Read's Margaretta as Federalist fantasy, Sarah Wentworth Morton's intertextual epic, the performance of class in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, Hawthorne's hybridized daughters, and Cooper and the American Revolutionary war novel 1784-1825. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)