{"product_id":"resurrecting-leather-stocking-pathfinding-in-jacksonian-america-9781611179606","title":"Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales - The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer (1823-1841) - romantically portray frontier America during the colonial and early republican eras. Bill Christophersen's \u003cem\u003eResurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America\u003c\/em\u003e suggests they also highlight problems plaguing nineteenth-century America during the contentious decades following the Missouri Compromise, when Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1820s and 1830s, the nation was riven by sectional animosity, slavery, prejudice, populist politics, and finally economic collapse. Christophersen argues that Cooper used his fictions to imagine a path forward for the Republic. Cooper, he further suggests, brought back Leather-Stocking to test whether the common man, as empowered by Jackson's presidency, was capable of republican virtue - something the author considered key to renewing the nation.","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188847829335,"sku":"9781611179606","price":41.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resurrecting-leather-stocking-pathfinding-in-jacksonian-america-9781611179606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}