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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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The Last of the Mohicans and the Languages of America
- Source: College English, Volume 60, Issue 1, Jan 1998, p. 9 - 30
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- 01 Jan 1998
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Abstract
Offers a sustained linguistic analysis of James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans.” Finds that, because Cooper’s technical blunders and moral limitations are always in view, they are revelatory. Suggests that no American author has gotten more things wrong about languages; but no one has dramatized more about how languages function in the American experience.
© 1998 by the National Council of Teachers of English