The Noble Savage in the New World Garden: Notes Toward a Syntactics of Place

actually alien ambiguous ambivalence American anti-hero appears archetypal aspects associated attitude become bullfighter character characteristic Chingachgook civilization context conventional Cooper's critical culture Deerslayer despite dream dystopia dystopic eighteenth-century emotional environment European experience fact fantasy fiction figure frontier function garden genre genre fiction Grendel hand Heinlein hero heroic high fantasy human idea ideal important Indian individual inevitably instance kind landscape least Leatherstocking Leatherstocking Tales Leo Marx literary literature mediator merely modern modes moral moreover myth mythic native Natty Natty Bumppo Natty's nature nineteenth century noble savage novel obvious paradise Paul Atreides perhaps period pioneer popular primitive primitivism primitivistic problem protagonist provides Puritan reality represents response ritual role Romantic Romanticism savagery says science fiction seems sense significant simply Slotkin social society space opera specifically story symbolic tends thing traditional typical ultimate values vision wilderness words writers