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James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)

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Criticism about James Fenimore Cooper

Contributions of Cooper

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/cooper.html#contr…

“The creation of the famous Leatherstocking saga has cemented hisposition as our first great national novelist and his influence pervadesAmerican literature. In his thirty-two years (1820-1851) of authorship,Cooper produced twenty-nine other long works of fiction and fifteenbooks – enough to fill forty-eight volumes in the new definitive editionof his Works.”

Contains: Commentary

Author: Reuben, Paul

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Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses

http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html

“Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” was written by Mark Twain denouncing James Fenimore Cooper’s writing style and content.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism,

Author: Twain, Mark

Keywords: James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, literary offenses

 

Fiction I: Brown, Cooper

http://www.bartleby.com/225/index.html#15

This lengthy analysis of the authors’ lives and works includes sections on “The Novel in the Colonies”, “Charles Brockden Brown”, “Brown�s Indebtedness to Godwin”, “James Fenimore Cooper; Youth; Naval Career”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “The Deerslayer “, and “Cooper�s Rank as a Romancer.”

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Carl Van Doren

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XV: English, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I

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James Fenimore Cooper

http://www.bartleby.com/187/3.html

“THE TASK of becoming the principal romancer of the new nation might have weighed heavily upon Cooper had he entered his career as a novelist in any self-conscious way. Instead, he fell almost accidentally into authorship.”

Contains: Criticism, Extensive Bio

Author: Carl Van Doren

From: The American Novel Chapter 2; New York: MacMillan, 1921

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James Fenimore Cooper and the Spectre of Edmund Burke

“James Fenimore Cooper, who disliked being called the American Scott, would, one imagines, take no more kindly to being called the American Burke. Yet without the writings of Edmund Burke, Cooper�s Leatherstocking Saga, and its by-product The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, would be of a very different character, if indeed they had been undertaken at all.”

Contains: Criticism

Author: Richard Gravil

From: Romanticism on the Net Vol. 14 May 1999

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Romancing the Indian: Sentimentalizing and Demonizing in Cooper and Twain

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Indians/main.html

“Representations of American Indians in nineteenth-century American literature were seldom culturally relative. Instead, the author often encoded in the American Indian caricature (“caricature” because these are rarely well-developed characters) his or her assumptions based on racial stereotypes, making the caricature a metonym for all AmericanIndians.”

Contains: Criticism, Commentary

Author: Rissetto, Adriana

Keywords: Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Indians, Native Americans

 

 
Biographical sites about James Fenimore Cooper

The Classic Text: James Fenimore Cooper

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg134.htm

This site provides information not only on the specific work Last of the Mohicans but also aids the reader in finding other facts about James Fenimore Cooper’s life.

Contains: Pictures, Commentary, Full Bio

Author: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Keywords: James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, life, biography

 

James Fenimore Cooper

http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo08002.html

This site provides biographical information on James Fenimore Cooper as well as a list of his works and their publication dates.

Contains: Full Bio, Pictures, Works List

Keywords: James Fenimore Cooper, biography, life, dates

 

James Fenimore Cooper Society Home Page

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/

The web’s most comprehensive web site relating to James Fenimore Cooper. Biographical information, texts of his works, a vast collection of articles about Cooper and his writings, and even an option to submit questions to the society’s experts.

Contains: Full Bio, Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Works List, Works Available

Author: James Fenimore Cooper Society

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Other sites about James Fenimore Cooper

Books and Other Materials by James Fenimore Cooper

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/bibliography.html

This site provides a chronological list of works written by James Fenimore Cooper and their publication information, as well as an annotated list of books about Cooper.

Contains: Works List

Author: MacDougall, Hugh C.

Keywords: James Fenimore Cooper, works, publication dates

 

Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/plots.html

“Partly because of the magnitude of Cooper’s fictional canon — his thirty-two novels average more than 500 pages in length — few people besides specialists in early American literature have read all of his works. It is hoped that the present study will be of use both to those who have not yet read his fiction and to those who have read it but have forgotten its details. Plot summaries are provided for all of his novels as well as for four shorter pieces of fiction”

Contains: Criticism, Commentary

Author: Walker, Warren S.

From: Archon Book 1978

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