The Oak Openings
The Oak Opening; or, The Bee Hunter is an 1848 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel focuses on the activities of a professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is the last of Cooper's novels to explore the relationships between Europeans and Native Americans in the early American expansion.[1][2] The novel is set in Michigan's Oak Opening - a wooded prairie.
The novel has a significant religious thematic focus.[3]
References
- ↑ Peprník, Michal (2005). "Cooper’s Indians: Typology and Function" (PDF). Theory and Practice in English Studies (Brno: Masarykova univerzita) 4.
- ↑ Frederick, John T. (December 1956). "Cooper's Eloquent Indians". PMLA 71 (5): 1004–1017. doi:10.2307/460524.
- ↑ Walker, Warren S. (1978). "The Oak Openings; or, The Bee-Hunter (1848) plot summary". Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. Hamden, CT: Archon Books. pp. 133–140 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.
Further reading
- Flory, Claude Reherd (1936). Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
- Pakditawan, Sirinya (2008). Die stereotypisierende Indianerdarstellung und deren Modifizierung im Werk James Fenimore Coopers (Thesis) (in German). University of Hamburg.
- Madison, Robert D. (May 2013). "Cooper's Oak-Openings: A Christian Novel" (30). Boston, Massachusetts: 10–12 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers.
External links
- The Oak Openings at Project Gutenberg
- 1871 Edition of the Novel republished by the University of Michigan Library's Making of America project
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