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"Smothered in Bookish Knowledge": Literacy and Epistemology in The Leatherstocking Tales
From: The Arizona Quarterly
Date: 20050101
Author:Masters, Joshua J
Books are, in a great measure, the instruments of controlling the opinions of a nation like ours. They are an engine, alike powerful to save or to destroy.
James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution (1821)
IN JOHN CAST'S 1872 LITHOGRAPH American Progress, a loosely obed female figure hovers over the frontier divide, holding a massive book to her not-quite-exposed bosom, with the words "Common School" written on its cover. Wielding a school book rather than a Bible, the mythic figure is simultaneously secularized and sexualized, a phantasmagoric schoolmarm transporting the nation's grammar and ...
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