 | The Prairie Subjects: Bumppo Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848 -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Fiction; In The Prairie (1827), Cooper's most celebrated literary work, Natty Bumppo, now aged, is reduced to making a living by trapping. As his journey from Atlantic to Pacific nears its end in a vast uninhabited grassland that Cooper consistently imagines as an ocean of the interior, nothing less than the future identity of America is at stake. MitchellDomhnall Martin: Domhnall Martin Mitchell is Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. |
