Narrow Passages”
Captive sailors and national narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12737656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Wood (0000-0003-3237-3963, Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-255 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Atlantic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-8810 • E-ISSN: 1740-4649 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14788810600875455 |
| OpenAlex | W2319295802 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper offers a new reading of James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary sea-romance, The Pilot, published in 1824 and regarded by many as “the first sea novel ever written”.1 1 Beard Beard, James Franklin. 1976. “Cooper and the Revolutionary Mythos.”. EAL, 11: 84–104. [Google Scholar], “Cooper and the Revolutionary Mythos,” 91. Challenging the long-held critical assumption that The Pilot reflects the maritime nationalism of the antebellum United States, this paper argues that instead The Pilot presents readers with a bungled naval expedition led by a dubious national hero in an aborted national narrative, where a spiralling captivity saga displaces the clichés of the Revolutionary romance genre and deconstructs revolutionary conceptualizations of American identity
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |