03788nam 2200601 a 450 991077780970332120230721031537.01-281-73480-297866117348000-300-13500-910.12987/9780300135008(CKB)1000000000473597(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171511(SSID)ssj0000184895(PQKBManifestationID)11183991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184895(PQKBWorkID)10207296(PQKB)11753532(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165563(MiAaPQ)EBC3420320(DE-B1597)485578(OCoLC)1024038010(DE-B1597)9780300135008(Au-PeEL)EBL3420320(CaPaEBR)ebr10210203(CaONFJC)MIL173480(OCoLC)923592179(EXLCZ)99100000000047359720060919d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrJames Fenimore Cooper[electronic resource] the early years /Wayne FranklinNew Haven Yale University Pressc20071 online resource (1 online resource (xxxiv, 708 p., [16] p. of plates) )ill., map"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--T.p. verso.0-300-10805-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-679) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --CHAPTER ONE. The Vision --CHAPTER TWO. Lessons --CHAPTER THREE. The Voyage of the Stirling --CHAPTER FOUR. Midshipman James Cooper --CHAPTER FIVE. Love and War --CHAPTER SIX. Fenimore Farm --CHAPTER SEVEN. Gains and Losses --CHAPTER EIGHT. A Better Book --CHAPTER NINE. An American Tale --CHAPTER TEN. Legal Troubles --CHAPTER ELEVEN. Settlement --CHAPTER TWELVE. Taking Manhattan --CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Old Tales and New --CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Legends --CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hawk-eye --CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Literary Business --Notes --IndexJames 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.Novelists, American19th centuryBiographyNovelists, American813/.2Franklin Wayne1464097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777809703321James Fenimore Cooper3728138UNINA