1Introduction LINDA WAGNER-MARTIN Series Editor’s Preface Introduction H.DANEL PECK The Wilderness of Words in The Last of the Mohicans WAYNE FRANKLIN From Atrocity to Requiem:Hisyory in The Last of the Mohicans TERENCE MARTIN How Men and Women Wrote Indian Stories NINA BAYM Generation through Violence:Cooper and the Making of Americans SHIRLEY SAMUELS The Lesson of the Massacre at Fort William Henry ROBERT LAWSON-PEEBLES Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography2 Humor in The Sun Also Rises SCOTT DONALDSON 3 The Sun in Its Time: Recovering the Historical Context MICHAEL S.REYNOLDS 4 Brett Ashley as New Woman in The Sun Also Rises WENDY MARTIN