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The novel as "neutral ground": genre and ideology in Cooper's 'The Spy.' (James Fenimore Cooper)
From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 19970322
Author:McTiernan, Dave
The American novel was in James Fenimore Cooper's time just in the process of becoming, and Cooper uses this genre in 'The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground' as a metaphor for a neutral territory in which British literary conventions meet his view of post-colonial politics. Harvey Birch and Frances Wharton, the male and female protagonists, best illustrate the relationship between the British genres and American ideology from which Cooper constructed this novel. Cooper replicates the social system he favored, leaving Fanny in her female subservience less of an American counterweight to ...
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