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Cooper's 'The Last of the Mohicans.' (book by author James Fenimore Cooper)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19980322
Author:Daniel, Clay
The character of David Gamut in Author James Fenimore Cooper's book 'The Last of the Mohicans' is perplexing. Readers of the book cannot quite reconcile Gamut, who is pious but foolish, with Cooper, who was a prolific author and a practicing Christian. Gamut appears not to be the author's rejection of literature or religion in general but rather reflects those people which Cooper linked to a classical-feudal Europe's cultural imperialism.
The foolish, futile, and pious David Gamut in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans has puzzled readers unable to reconcile this character ...
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