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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
Aside from the Irvings and Paulding, the initial members of the group consisted of, but were not limited to, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Gulian Verplanck, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant and Joseph Rodman Drake. [8] Membership into the Knickerbocker group established its group members as literary personalities in New York. [8]
James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish: A Tale is a historical novel set during King Philip's War, and was first published on November 6, 1829. [3] [4]With the success of his novel The Red Rover, a London publisher proposed a total of $600 for each of two tales, one an American tale and the other a sea story (The Water Witch). [5]
Later on, Cooper conducted an experiment with one of his family members and messmate. Cooper read a large portion of the first chapter to them with an unexpected response. The messmate gave a strong satisfaction to the book, praising the details and work put into it. Cooper had undertaken to surpass Walter Scott's Pirate (1821) in seamanship.
The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable, was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the Leatherstocking Tales, The Prairie and The Pathfinder. [1] The critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. [1]
Wyandotté is a historical novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1843. [1] The novel is set in New York state during the American Revolution. [1] The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereotypes of Native Americans.
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines – A Story of the Rhine is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1832.The novel is a socio-political novel set in 16th-century Germany that focuses on the competition between various socio-political classes and the tension caused by the Reformation.
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario.