Sp15M James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (Hybrid/In-Person)
In-Person | Available (Membership Required)
[NEW COURSE] Cooper’s 1826 novel was internationally considered the greatest American novel in the 19th century. So why is it seldom read now? It is generally condemned as an apology for colonialism. But read on its own terms (and in the context of Sir Walter Scott, Milton, and Milton’s Romantic revisers) it is a profound, still highly relevant, critique of America’s Original Sin – ethnocentrism, and its ideal character will provide a model for mitigating it. Enrollment Limit: 25 Audio/Visual, Discussion, Lecture, Reading (No class May 26)
Donna Richardson
Donna Richardson is professor emerita at St. Mary's College of Maryland where she taught literature for 33 years. Her specialties include poetry (especially Romantics), mythology in Greek literature, and Tolstoy.