Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Feedbooks
ISBN: 2291012452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2628
Book Description
Anthologie contenant : The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie
The Deerslayer Anthologie
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Feedbooks
ISBN: 2291012452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2628
Book Description
Anthologie contenant : The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie
The Crater : Or, Vulcan's Peak
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Red Rover
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
James Fenimore Cooper
Author: Wayne FranklinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
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.
The Pioneers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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The Deerslayer Illustrated
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.
The Gentleman in the Garden
Author: Russell T. NewmanPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape of James Fenimore Cooper examines the profound and previously unrecognized relationship between landscape and social standing in the work of James Fenimore Cooper. Both a broad overview of Cooper's work and an in-depth examination of its views on society, The Gentleman in the Garden is a creative and insightful exploration of the pioneer aesthetic of one of America's earliest authors
Works of J. Fenimore Cooper
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WORKS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Author: James Fenimore 1789-1851 CooperPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372297946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
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Old Style
Author: Claudia StokesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American audiences, Claudia Stokes contends. On the contrary, readers were taught to value familiarity, traditionalism, and regularity. Literary originality was often seen as a mark of vulgar sensationalism and poor quality. In Old Style Stokes offers the first dedicated study of a forgotten nineteenth-century aesthetic, explicating the forms, practices, conventions, and uses of unoriginality. She focuses in particular on the second quarter of the century, when improvements in printing and distribution caused literary markets to become flooded with new material, and longstanding reading practices came under threat. As readers began to prefer novelty to traditional forms, advocates openly extolled unoriginality in an effort to preserve the old literary ways. Old Style examines this era of significant literary change, during which a once-dominant aesthetic started to give way to modern preferences. If writing in the old style came to be associated with elite conservatism—a linkage that contributed to its decline in the twentieth century—it also, paradoxically provided marginalized writers—people of color, white women, and members of the working class—the literary credentials they needed to enter print. Writing in the old style could affirm an aspiring author's training, command of convention, and respectability. In dismissing unoriginality as the literary purview of the untalented or unambitious, Stokes cautions, we risk overlooking something of vital importance to generations of American writers and readers.