Wyandotté (novel) explained

Wyandotté is a historical novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1843. The novel is set in New York state during the American Revolution.^[1] The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereotypes of Native Americans.^[2]

Critic James H. Pickering described the novel as rejecting the more established histories of the New York/Canada border war during the Revolution.^[1] In part the novel represents Cooper's own knowledge of the regional oral history and affiliation with soldiers who had experienced the war.^[1]

Critical reception

In his 1968 review of the novel, critic James H. Pickering called the novel one of "Cooper's more successful efforts".^[1]

Further reading

• Book: Ringe, Donald A. . James Fenimore Cooper. registration . New Haven. 1962. 101–105. 9780805701562.
• Book: House, Kay Seymour. Cooper's Americans . Ohio State University Press. 1965. 49–56.
• Fenimore Cooper's Wyandotté and the Cyclic Course of Empire. Jeffrey. Walker. 6th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art-->. State University of New York College at Oneonta. July 1986. George A. Test. 94–104. James Fenimore Cooper Society.
  • James Fenimore Cooper Society . "A Bold Stroke against the Wilderness": Wyandotté and Cooper's Critique of the Jeffersonian Ideology of Domestic Production. James J.. Schramer. Cooper Panel of the 1995 Conference of the American Literature Association--> . Baltimore . James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers . 6. August 1995.

Notes and References

1. New York in the Revolution: Cooper's Wyandotté. James H.. Pickering. New York History. XLIX. 2 . April 1968. 121–141. James Fenimore Cooper Society.
2. Book: Abel, Darrel. James Fenimore Cooper . 350–395. https://books.google.com/books?id=_XwuWNakgXkC&q=Wyandotte+cooper+novel&pg=PA376. iUniverse. 9780595250899. The Nascence of American Literature. 2002-10-01.