{"product_id":"resurrecting-leather-stocking","title":"Resurrecting Leather-Stocking","description":"James 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 Product","offer_id":57261068550488,"sku":"9781611179606","price":54.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781611179606.jpg?v=1778393739","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/resurrecting-leather-stocking","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}