“An English Tale of the Ordinary Type”: Jane Austen’s Influence on James Fenimore Cooper
By
Barbara Alice Mann
Barbara Alice Mann, Ph.D. (email: BMann@UTNet.UToledo.edu), an Ohio Bear Clan Seneca, is a scholar whose ninth book on Native-settler history is forthcoming this spring. In addition, she has published on Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, a little on Austen, and is projecting a book on the Cooper-Austen connection.