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James Fenimore Cooper and the Genteel Hero of Romance
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“Messengers of Justice and of Wrath”: the Captivity
―Messengers of Justice and of Wrath‖: The Captivity-Revenge Cycle in the American Frontier Romance A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Brian P. Elliott June 2011 © 2011 Brian P. Elliott. All Rights Reserved. 2 This dissertation titled ―Messengers of Justice and of Wrath‖: The Captivity-Revenge Cycle in the American Frontier Romance by BRIAN P. ELLIOTT has been approved for the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences by Paul C. Jones Associate Professor of English Benjamin M. Ogles Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 3 ABSTRACT ELLIOTT, BRIAN P., Ph.D., June 2011, English ―Messengers of Justice and of Wrath‖: The Captivity-Revenge Cycle in the American Frontier Romance Director of Dissertation: Paul C. Jones This project explores the central importance of captivity and revenge to four novels in the genre of frontier romance: Charles Brockden Brown‘s Edgar Huntly (1799), James Fenimore Cooper‘s Last of the Mohicans (1826), Catharine Maria Sedgwick‘s Hope Leslie (1827), and Robert Montgomery Bird‘s Nick of the Woods (1837). Although a fundamental plot aspect of nearly every work in the genre, the threat of captivity and the necessity of revenge are rarely approached as topics of inquiry, despite their deep connection to the structure and action of the texts. Perhaps most importantly, as critics Jeremy Engels and Greg Goodale note, these twin tropes serve as a way of unifying disparate social groups and creating order; in essence, such depictions function as a form of what Michel Foucault terms ―governmentality,‖ logics of control that originate from non-governmental sources but promote systems of governance. -
James Fenimore Cooper and the Idea of Environmental Conservation in the Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841)
Ceisy Nita Wuntu — James Fenimore Cooper and the Idea of Environmental Conservation in the Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841) JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND THE IDEA OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES (1823-1841) Ceisy Nita Wuntu IKIP Negeri Manado [email protected] Abstract The spirit to respect the rights of all living environment in literature that was found in the 1970s in William Rueckert’s works was considered as the emergence of the new criticism in literature, ecocriticism, which brought the efforts to trace the spirit in works of literature. Works arose after the 1840s written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margareth Fuller, the American transcendentalists, are considered to be the first works presenting the respect for the living environment as claimed by Peter Barry. James Fenimore Cooper’s reputation in American literary history appeared because of his role in leading American literature into its identity. Among his works, The Leatherstocking Tales mostly attracted European readers’ attention when he successfully applied American issues. The major issue in the work is the spirit of the immigrants to dominate flora, fauna and human beings as was experienced by the indigenous people. Applying ecocriticism theory in doing the analysis, it has been found that Cooper’s works particularly his The Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841) present Cooper’s great concern for the sustainable life. He shows that compassion, respect, wisdom, and justice are the essential aspects in preserving nature that meet the main concern of ecocriticism and hence the works that preceded the transcendentalists’ work places themselves as the embryo of ecocriticism in America. -
James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author
Syracuse University SURFACE The Courier Libraries Spring 1988 James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author Constantine Evans Syracuse University Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Evans, Constantine. "James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author." The Courier 23.1 (1988): 57-77. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 1, SPRING 1988 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXIII NUMBER ONE SPRING 1988 The Forgotten Brother: Francis William Newman, Victorian Modernist By Kathleen Manwaring, Syracuse University Library 3 The Joseph Conrad Collection at Syracuse University By J. H. Stape, Visiting Associate Professor of English, 27 Universite de Limoges The Jean Cocteau Collection: How 'Astonishing'? By Paul J. Archambault, Professor of French, 33 Syracuse University A Book from the Library of Christoph Scheurl (1481-1542) By Gail P. Hueting, Librarian, University of Illinois at 49 Urbana~Champaign James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author By Constantine Evans, Instructor in English, 57 Syracuse University News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates 79 James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author BY CONSTANTINE EVANS The distinctive event that marks the beginning of Cooper's prog~ ress towards a career as an author took place in 1805, when at age sixteen he left Yale College in disgrace. -
Cooper, James Feminore, Papers, 1792
American Antiquarian Society Manuscript Collections NAME OF COLLECTION : LOCATION : Cooper, James Fenimore, Papers, 1792-1884 Mss. boxes "C" Oversize mss. boxes "C" SIZE OF COLLECTION : 7 manuscript boxes; 1 oversize manuscript box SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON COLLECTION : The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper , ed. by James Franklin Beard. 6 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960-1968). Robert E. Spiller and Philip C. Blackburn. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper . (New York: Bowker, 1934) SOURCE OF COLLECTION : One letter, dated 25? February 1832 to Armand Carrel, was purchased from George S. MacManus Co., 1983. Two letters, dated 22 May 1826 and 7 July 1827, was purchased from Ximenes Books, 1986. One letter , bound into The Deerslayer , was purchased from Argonaut Books, 1987. The remainder of the collection was the gift of the Paul Fenimore Cooper, Jr. estate, 1990. COLLECTION DESCRIPTION : James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), the son of William Cooper (1754-1809) and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper (1752-1817), was born in Burlington, N.J., but spent his youth at Otsego Hall in Cooperstown, N.Y., the home of his father. After an early education at the public school in Cooperstown and at the home of an Episcopal rector in Albany, he attended Yale University for three years. In 1806 he went to sea, receiving a commission as a navy midshipman in 1808. His marriage to Susan Augusta De Lancy (1792-1852) of Westchester County, N.Y., took place in 1811, when he also resigned from the navy. In the years immediately following their marriage, the Coopers lived in Mamaroneck, Cooperstown, Scarsdale (where he began writing), and New York, N.Y. -
The Deerslayer Or, the First War-Path
1841 THE DEERSLAYER OR, THE FIRST WAR-PATH James Fenimore Cooper Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) - American novelist best known for his Leatherstocking Tales, five novels which follow the life of the American frontiersman, Natty Bumppo. Despite his often poor literary craftsmanship, Coo- per was the first American novelist to gain international fame. The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (1841) - Chronologically the first of “The Leatherstocking Tales,” it was the last to be written. The Deerslayer is a record of Natty Bumppo’s youth. Chief Chingachgook is introduced here. Table Of Contents THE DEERSLAYER OR THE FIRST WAR-PATH . 7 PREFACE TO THE DEERSLAYER . 7 FIRST EDITION . 7 PREFACE TO THE LEATHER-STOCKING TALES . 11 PREFACE TO THE DEERSLAYER 1850 EDITION . 17 CHAPTER I . 20 CHAPTER II . 41 CHAPTER III . 63 CHAPTER IV . 86 CHAPTER V . 110 CHAPTER VI . 136 CHAPTER VII . 157 CHAPTER VIII . 181 CHAPTER IX . 206 CHAPTER X . 232 CHAPTER XI . 257 CHAPTER XII . 281 CHAPTER XIII . 308 CHAPTER XIV . 334 CHAPTER XV . 358 CHAPTER XVI . 383 CHAPTER XVII . 408 CHAPTER XVIII . 434 CHAPTER XIX . 451 CHAPTER XX . 478 CHAPTER XXI . 502 CHAPTER XXII . 528 CHAPTER XXIII . 548 CHAPTER XXIV . 574 CHAPTER XXV . 603 CHAPTER XXVI . 630 CHAPTER XXVII . 655 CHAPTER XXVIII . 680 CHAPTER XXIX . 700 CHAPTER XXX . 716 CHAPTER XXXI . 737 CHAPTER XXXII . 756 THE END . 773 THE DEERSLAYER OR THE FIRST WAR-PATH PREFACE TO THE DEERSLAYER FIRST EDITION THIS book has not been written, without many misgivings as to its probable reception. To carry one and the same character through five several works would seem to be a wilful over drawing on the good nature of the public, and many per- sons may very reasonably suppose it an act, of itself, that ought to invite a rebuke. -
James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel
Geoffrey James Fenimore Cooper and the Sanborn Invention of the Passing Novel The trouble with racism, for James Fenimore Cooper, is that it is too subtle. “We will not enter upon any subtle deductions which involve national character, or national enterprise and aptitude for sea- service,” he writes in an 1821 essay. “We leave such nice dis- tinctions for greater ingenuity than we can pretend to.”1 In opposition to “theorists” who insist on “the inferiority of all . who [are] not white,” he declares that there is no such thing as “general national superiority.”2 In opposition to metaphysicians who “reason as subtly as they can about the races and colors,” he argues that the “moral tone” of one’s behavior “depend[s] more on the conventional feel- ing . got up through moral agencies, than on birth-place, origin, or colour.”3 In the case of whites and Indians in the trans- Mississippi West, he writes in The Prairie (1827), it would take a “curious investi- gation” to identify the “points of difference” by which they were “still to be distinguished . now that the two, in the revolutions of the world, were approximating in their habits, their residence and not a little in their characters.”4 But racism is, Cooper recognizes, subtle in another way as well. Thanks to the power of “self- love,” an “unquiet spirit which haunts us to the last,” no one is immune to “the vulgar prejudice of national superiority . one of the strongest of all the weaknesses of our very weak nature.”5 “It is possible,” writes Corny Littlepage in The Chain- bearer (1845), -
Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
THE OTHER WOMAN: SECONDARY HEROINES IN THE NINETEENTH- CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN NOVEL DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at The Ohio State University By Jennifer Bonnie Camden, M.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 2005 Dissertation Committee: Professor Susan Williams, Adviser Approved by Professor Marlene Longenecker Professor Amanpal Garcha ______________________________ Professor Elizabeth Hewitt Adviser English Graduate Program ABSTRACT In a recurrent pattern in the nineteenth-century novel, authors introduce two female characters, only to focus on one and appear to forget the other. My dissertation examines this other woman: the “secondary heroine.” The protagonists of Romantic novels are written to embody stable national identities, suggesting a transatlantic history of the Romantic novel in which both British and American authors equate the primary heroine with a cultural ideal of femininity. Yet both traditions challenge that cultural ideal through the figure of the secondary heroine. My dissertation demonstrates how authors initially deployed the “other woman” to suppress alternative images of womanhood and nationhood, but eventually embraced the secondary heroine as the centerpiece of the Realist novel. In the first three chapters, I pair British and American novels and examine the secondary heroine as a challenge to generic and nationalist constraints. I divide the Romantic novel into three separate subgenres: the epistolary novel, as exemplified by Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747-8) and Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette (1797); the Gothic and its inheritors in the cult of sensibility, represented by Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790), Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), and James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823); and the historical romance in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1820) and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827). -
Sensibility in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper
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THE DEERSLAYER James Fenimore Cooper Read by Raymond Todd
THE DEERSLAYER James Fenimore Cooper Read by Raymond Todd The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New THE ALL-IN-ONE AUDIOBOOK York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called “Deerslayer,” and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, where the trapper Thomas Hutter lives with his daughters, the beautiful Judith and the feeble-minded Hetty. Hutter’s floating log fort is attacked by Iroquois Indians, and the two frontiersmen join in the fight. “Todd’s voice is extraordinary, rich, and deep.”—KLIATT JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789–1851), the first major American novelist, was the son of a wealthy landowner who founded Cooperstown, New York. He attended Yale and served in the navy before turning to writing with Precaution (1820), but it was his second book, The Spy (1821), that brought him international fame. After he wrote The Pioneers (1823), public fascination with the character of Natty Bumppo and his use of the American landscape led him to write a series of sequels that gradually unfold the entire life of the frontier scout. The books’ popularity reflected the growing interest in the clash between savagery and civilization on the frontier. RAYMOND TODD is an actor-director in the theater, a poet, and a documentary filmmaker who lives in New York. He is also a jazz trombonist whose jazz quartet, Leatherstocking, gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. AUDIO, INC. Running Time: 20.5 Hours • Unabridged 0 2001 by Blackstone Audio, Inc. -
James Fenimore Cooper Was Born on September 15, 1789, and May Be Considered by Some to Be an Accidental Author. He Never Showed
James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789, and may be considered by some to be an accidental author. He never showed any interest in becoming an author while he was growing up in New York. He had a good education, attended Yale, joined the merchant service, and served in the United States Navy. His father died in 1809. James married in 1811 and settled down to manage his home and run a farm. For nine years, this life seemed to suit him, but in 1820, he began writing a novel. This is the way The Book of Knowledge published by the Grolier Society in 1911 tells the story: But, happening one day to read a story which he thought very poor, he asserted that he could do better himself, and half in fun, sat down to the writing of his first book. The title of this was ‘Precaution,’ and, although it is on the whole a very ordinary story, his friends seemed to like it. So he determined to become an author. Other sources say it was a challenge from his wife that led him to write Precaution, but whichever account is true, it is clear that James had not pursued writing great literature, as many famous authors of the time had done. He did, however, study great models as he continued to write and improve his craft. He is remembered for his books that bear a uniquely American flavor and setting. His second novel, The Spy, is set during the American Revolution. His “Leatherstocking” tales tell of life on the frontier and the adventures of Natty Bumppo in the novels The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer. -
A Chronology of James Fenimore Cooper
A Chronology of James Fenimore Cooper 1786 William Cooper establishes Cooperstown at the southern tip of Lake Otsego in New York. 1789 James Cooper born in Burlington, New Jer- sey. William Cooper moves his family to Cooperstown the following year. 1803 Cooper matriculates at Yale; dismissed for misconduct two years later. 1806-1808 Sails before the mast to England and the con- tinent aboard the Stirling; serves as a mid- shipman in the United States Navy at Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario. 1811 Marries Susan Augusta De Lancey. 1811-1819 Lives as a gentleman farmer on family lands in Westchester County and Cooperstown. 1820 Writes Precaution and, in the following year, The Spy (1821). 1822-1826 Moves to New York City and writes The Pioneers (1823), The Pilot (1824), Lionel Lincoln (1825), and The Last of the Mohicans (1826). 1826-1833 Resides in Europe with his family. Lives most ix X A Chronology of James Fenimore Cooper frequently in Paris but takes long trips to England, the Low Countries, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. Concern with and in- volvement in the European revolutionary movements of 1830. Writes The Prairie (1827), The Red Rover (1827), Notions of the Americans (1828), The Wept of Wish- ton-Wish (1829), and The Water-Witch (1830). After 1830, turns to novels that con- cern European politics: The Bravo (1831), The Heidenmauer (1832), and The Heads- man (1833). 1833-1836 Returns to America and resides in New York City. Political correspondent for the Evening Post. A Letter to His Countrymen (1834), the A.B.C. Letters (1834-1836), and The Monikins (1835).