SOURCE: "Scott and Cultural Relativism: The Two Drovers'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 1-9.
In the following essay, Cooney reveals a contradiction between the overt and covert meanings of "The Two Drovers " to suggest that a nascent though subconscious ideology of cultural relativism informs the tale.
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