Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

  • Not a critical or scholarly text but a reading text for a seminar

  • Gratefully adapted from Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia Library (http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CooMohi.html)

  • Changes may include paragraph divisions, highlights, spelling updates, bracketed annotations, &
    elisions (marked by ellipses . . . )

chapter index

 

Selections from

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

A Narrative of 1757

(1826)

 

Painting The Last of the Mohicans by Thomas Cole

scale and depth of perspective = sublime

 

Dr. White's introduction to Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales incl. Last of the Mohicans

Cooper's introduction to The Last of the Mohicans

Chapters 1 & 2

Chapters 5-9

Chapters 11-13

Chapters 16 & 17

Chapters 29 & 30

Chapters 32 & 33

from the conclusion of The Deerslayer (1841)