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James Fenimore Cooper
Author | : Wayne Franklin |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300135008 |
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twain—who felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his “literary offenses.” His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooper’s fictions traced native losses to their economic sources. Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper’s life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooper’s life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooper’s life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.
James Fenimore Cooper Sea Tales LOA 54
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 1991-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0940450704 |
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In The Pilot (1824) and The Red Rover (1828), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Collected here in a single Library of America volume, they are among his finest works. Bold, vigorous, original, each is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had sailed before the mast on a merchantman bound from New York to London and then to Spain. On board he experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terrifying storms, was chased by pirates, and watched the impressment of crew members by a British man-of-war. He later served as an officer in the United States Navy. The Pilot is loosely based upon stories of John Paul Jones’s daring hit-and-run tactics during the Revolutionary War. The shadowy hero, modeled on Jones, leads a squadron of the infant American navy in a series of raids on the English coast, braving fierce storms and the guns of hostile warships, yet never revealing his identity. In this novel Cooper introduced the character of the “old salt,” the seasoned deckhand happy only aboard ship. Long Tom Coffin, with his briny conversation and shrewd nautical advice, is the first of Cooper’s memorable portraits of common seaman. A ghostly ship, an uncanny hero, a heroine kidnapped by pirates, revelations of mistaken identity, and the reunion of long-lost relatives—scenes of romance and adventure fill the pages of The Red Rover, Cooper’s most theatrical novel. Set in the mid-eighteenth century, the tale recounts the exploits of a noble outcast and visionary who foresees America’s destiny as a sovereign nation. Forced into a life of piracy, the Rover conducts his private war of independence in a story that equates the free and daring life with the American dream of self-reliance and liberty from British rule. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
James Fenimore Cooper Representative Selections
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105010228364 |
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This volume is ... restricted to the critical prose in order that the student may, by means of it, gain a knowledge of the mind of one ot the first authors to give form and direction to American literature.
The Pathfinder Annotated
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2020-12-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9798579114709 |
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The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario.
James Fenimore Cooper
Author | : Donald A. Ringe |
Publsiher | : New York : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011880328 |
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The Red Rover
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Sea stories |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433112154905 |
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The American Democrat
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781412811033 |
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Originally published: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1931.
The Pioneers
Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044055293336 |
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