Premium Content Cora Munro's Sexual and Maternal Instincts in The Last of the Mohicans
By Frances G. Tilney - September 27, 2001
Cora Munro's relationship with her younger, fairer sister Alice demonstrates a distinct mother-daughter pattern that manifests itself in every interaction between the two women. Throughout James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, the character of Cora continuously hides her sister's face in her bosom as an indication of undying protection…
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