Richard Gravil, ‘Regicide and Ethnic Cleansing; or, Edmund Burke in Wish-ton-Wish'. Symbiosis, 4.2 (October 2000) 187–204

This rare treatment of one of Fenimore Cooper's most intriguing (and intriguingly titled) novels, The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, was first published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations

Essay Topics and Keywords:

Regicide; Edmund Burke; Sublimity; James Fenimore Cooper; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; Genocide; Ethnic Cleansing; Anglo-American Relations; Puritans, Native Americans, Narragansett, ‘King Philip’, Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Backwoodsman

Richard Gravil

Richard Gravil is author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (2000) and Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842 (2003). He is Director of the Wordsworth Conference and the Wordsworth Winter School.