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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.
James Fenimore Cooper in an 1822 portrait. Everett Emerson (in Mark Twain: A Literary Life) wrote that the essay is "possibly the author's funniest". [6] Joseph Andriano, in The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, argued that Twain "Imposed the standards of Realism on Romance" and that this incongruity is a major source of the humor in the essay.
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 "keen-eyed critic of the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel, by Luis Iglesias at the Cooper Panel of the 2006 Conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco. Carl Van Doren (1920). "Pilot, The" . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana. The Pilot, or A Tale of the Sea – ESAT. (2021 ...
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo.His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man".
American Men of Letters: James Fenimore Cooper. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. McWilliams, John P. Jr. (1972). Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper's America. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02175-4. Railton, Stephen (1978). Fenimore Cooper: a Study of his Life and Imagination. New Jersey ...
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]
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]