How Long to Read Plotting America's Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Plotting America's Past?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Plotting America's Past by William P. Kelly

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is the first book-length study to show how Cooper uses the Leatherstocking series as a touchstone to explore pre-Civil War America s perception of its past.Kelly s historiographic approach to the "Tales "marks a significant departure from previous critical commentary on the stories: Other critics have centered either on the "Tales "mythological status, on their relevance for an understanding of Jacksonian America, or on their aesthetic preconceptions. Kelly begins his innovative study by challenging the assumption that American writers of the eighteenth century lacked native models for their fiction.He argues that rather than a void, Americans confronted two competing patterns of historical vision. In documents as diverse as John Winthrop s "Journal, "the Declaration of Independence, Emerson s "Essays, "and Lincoln s Second Inaugural, America is imagined as simultaneously free and bound, as a nation at once independent from history and organically linked to centuries of human development. Kelly shows that Cooper s fiction illustrates this characteristic perception of the past with an unparalleled clarity. Neither a defense of tradition nor an assault on entailment, his novels plot American history as a progressive development in the continuum of human events and as a departure from that process."

How long is Plotting America's Past?

Plotting America's Past by William P. Kelly is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Plotting America's Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Plotting America's Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Plotting America's Past?

Plotting America's Past is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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