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Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero

Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero Michael D. Butler Western American Literature, Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 1977, pp. 53-66 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1977.0051 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530884/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:28 GMT from JHU Libraries M I C H A E L D . B U T L E R University of Kansas Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero Leatherstocking has traditionally been treated as the first fully developed A m erican hero, th e type prefiguring later anti-types like the m ountain m an, cowboy, gangster, soldier of fortune, expatriate writer, private eye. Literary a n d cultural historians who use C ooper’s creation as a starting point usually trace out a literature dom inated by outsiders — by men an d women w ho cannot exist w ithin society: m en an d women whose in n ate or naturally evolved impulses, desires, values cannot be fit into the artificially shaped structures of civilization. O urs is, these critics conclude, a literature obsessed w ith figures in flight, w ith characters running from the distorting confines of town an d tradition into the expansive freedom of wide open http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero

Butler, Michael D.
Western American Literature , Volume 12 (1) – Oct 4, 2017
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Michael D. Butler Western American Literature, Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 1977, pp. 53-66 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1977.0051 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530884/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:28 GMT from JHU Libraries M I C H A E L D . B U T L E R University of Kansas Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero Leatherstocking has traditionally been treated as the first fully developed A m erican hero, th e type prefiguring later anti-types like the m ountain m an, cowboy, gangster, soldier of fortune, expatriate writer, private eye. Literary a n d cultural historians who use C ooper’s creation as a starting point usually trace out a literature dom inated by outsiders — by men an d women w ho cannot exist w ithin society: m en an d women whose in n ate or naturally evolved impulses, desires, values cannot be fit into the artificially shaped structures of civilization. O urs is, these critics conclude, a literature obsessed w ith figures in flight, w ith characters running from the distorting confines of town an d tradition into the expansive freedom of wide open

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