LEADER 03788nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910777809703321 005 20230721031537.0 010 $a1-281-73480-2 010 $a9786611734800 010 $a0-300-13500-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300135008 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473597 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171511 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184895 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183991 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184895 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207296 035 $a(PQKB)11753532 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165563 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420320 035 $a(DE-B1597)485578 035 $a(OCoLC)1024038010 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300135008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420320 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210203 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173480 035 $a(OCoLC)923592179 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473597 100 $a20060919d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJames Fenimore Cooper$b[electronic resource] $ethe early years /$fWayne Franklin 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxiv, 708 p., [16] p. of plates) )$cill., map 300 $a"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--T.p. verso. 311 0 $a0-300-10805-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [523]-679) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Vision --$tCHAPTER TWO. Lessons --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Voyage of the Stirling --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Midshipman James Cooper --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Love and War --$tCHAPTER SIX. Fenimore Farm --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Gains and Losses --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. A Better Book --$tCHAPTER NINE. An American Tale --$tCHAPTER TEN. Legal Troubles --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Settlement --$tCHAPTER TWELVE. Taking Manhattan --$tCHAPTER THIRTEEN. Old Tales and New --$tCHAPTER FOURTEEN. Legends --$tCHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hawk-eye --$tCHAPTER SIXTEEN. Literary Business --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aJames 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. 606 $aNovelists, American$y19th century$vBiography 615 0$aNovelists, American 676 $a813/.2 700 $aFranklin$b Wayne$01464097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777809703321 996 $aJames Fenimore Cooper$93728138 997 $aUNINA