More recently, the anti-hero of television’s M*A*S*H,Ĭaptain Benjamin Franklin Pierce, we are told, received his sobriquet 'Hawk-eye'īecause the Cooper tale was supposedly the only novel his father had ever read. Mark Twain made CooperĪnd his 'offenses' against literary art in the Leather-Stocking tales part of his Nonetheless read about it or read abridged versions of it, and our own popularĬulture has embraced it in a number of curious ways. Most Americans, if they have not read the novel (and most have not), have 1 Considering the popular reception of the novel in Cooper’s day and the mythic story it spins about American frontier heroes, this attention seems deserved. Mascot serial to animated version to BBC television series to Hollywood epic. Interpretations of the novel have appeared in various forms, from silent picture to

Incarnation in 1992 as a Michael Mann potboiler, more than a dozen One-reelers by the Powers and Thanhouser Film Companies to its latest Griffith one-reeler and in 1911 as two different From its firstĪdaptations in 1909 as a D. Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 has probably generated more attentionįrom Hollywood filmmakers than virtually any other American novel. Philadelphia publishing house of Carey and Lea, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Since its initial two-volume publication on 6 February 1826 by the Return to SUNY Seminars | Articles & Papers 10), The State University of New York College at Oneonta. 10), Papers from the 1995 Cooper Seminar (No. Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art (No. (Oklahoma State University) Presented at the 10th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 1995 Deconstructing an American Myth: Hollywood and The Last of the Mohicansĭeconstructing an American Myth: Hollywood and The Last of the Mohicans Jeffrey Walker

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