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Cooper's THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19990922
Author:HARDY, ROBERT
Recent scholarship on James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish has focused almost exclusively on the issue of "miscegenation" raised by the marriage between the Narragansett chief, Conanchet, and Ruth Heathcote, the daughter of a Puritan family who was abducted during an Indian raid on the Puritan settlement. Responding to Leslie Fiedler's statement that Cooper's novel portrays "the nightmare of miscegenation" (204), recent scholars have demonstrated that there is nothing in the novel to suggest that Cooper intended it as a polemic against intermarriage. [1]
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