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Fenimore Cooper : the critical heritage
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ISBN: 0710076355 9780710076359 Year: 1973 Publisher: London Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul,

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James Fenimore Cooper : the early years
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ISBN: 1281734802 9786611734800 0300135009 9780300135008 9780300108057 0300108052 9781281734808 Year: 2007 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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James 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.

Perfecting friendship : politics and affiliation in early American literature
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ISBN: 0807876712 9780807876718 0807830690 9780807830697 0807857785 9780807857786 9798890881366 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, this book uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and political in nature.

The American Abraham : James Fenimore Cooper and the frontier patriarch
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ISBN: 0511895313 0521327822 0521057752 Year: 1987 Volume: [27] Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career. Whereas most studies of Cooper have centered on the figure of the Leatherstocking - that solitary model of the self-sufficient American hero untrammeled by civilization - this book examines Cooper's interest in the pioneer patriarchs who built new societies in the wilderness. Throughout his career Cooper explored an essential American problem: how to achieve the right balance between freedom and authority. He did this by retelling the story of the frontier settlement and thereby assessing its successes and failures. Like other writers in the decades before the Civil War, Cooper struggled with the legacy of the Revolutionary fathers - a legacy made more personal in Cooper's case by his father's role as a frontier land developer, judge, and Federalist politician. This book breaks new ground by relating Cooper's artistic development, and his ideas about authority in society, to his efforts to become independent of his father.

Aristotle on substance : the paradox of unity
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ISBN: 0691073341 0691020701 9780691073347 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.

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Matter --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Matière --- Substance (Philosophie) --- History --- Histoire --- Aristotle --- Contributions in matter --- Contributions in substance (Philosophy) --- Et la matière --- Et la substance (Philosophie) --- History. --- -Substance (Philosophy) --- -Matter --- Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Reality --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- -Aristotle --- -Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristote --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristoteles --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Aristotile --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Contributions in concept of matter --- Contributions in concept of substance --- -History --- -Contributions in concept of matter --- -Aristoteles --- Matière --- Et la matière --- Aristotle. --- Contributions in matter. --- Aristoteles. --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Αριστοτέλης --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- アリストテレス --- Matiere --- Histoire. --- Et le concept de matiere. --- Et le concept de substance. --- Matter - History. --- Substance (Philosophy) - History. --- Albritton, R. --- Anaximander. --- Barnes, J. --- Cooper, J. --- Democritus. --- Empedocles. --- Furley, D. --- Greco, A. --- Grene, M. --- Happ, H. --- Heraclitus. --- Joachim. --- Kahn, C. --- Kostman, J. --- Lacey, A. R. --- Lennox, J. --- Loux, M. --- Mansion, A. --- Matthewson, P. --- Modrak, D. --- Owens, J. --- Parmenides. --- Prime Mover. --- Putnam, N. --- Rodier, G. --- Thales. --- Wedin, M. --- Wicksteed, P. H. --- Zabarella, I. --- aether. --- blood. --- categories: of change. --- contact. --- corpse. --- elemental transformation. --- essence. --- fetus. --- focal meaning. --- heavenly bodies. --- hylomorphic analysis. --- intellect. --- locomotion (change of place). --- organisms. --- paronymy. --- predication: accidental. --- receptacle. --- spatial. --- thisness. --- uniform materials. --- wearying.

The freedom to remember : narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction
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ISBN: 0813530687 0813530695 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. London Rutgers University Press

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African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Herinnering in de literatuur --- Memory in literature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African American women in literature. --- African American women --- African Americans in literature. --- American fiction --- Memory in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Women and literature --- Intellectual life. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- 82:396 --- 820 <73> --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Memory as a theme in literature --- American literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Afro-American women in literature --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- United States --- 20th century --- Jacobs, Harriet Ann --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Williams, Sherley Anne --- Morrison, Toni --- Cary, Lorene --- Cooper, J. California --- Enslaved persons in literature

Beyond practical virtue : a defense of liberal democracy through literature
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ISBN: 0826265790 9780826265791 9780826217110 0826217117 Year: 2007 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press,

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"Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the state and the individual"--Provided by publisher.

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American fiction --- Liberalism in literature. --- Democracy in literature. --- Individualism in literature. --- Liberalism. --- Democracy. --- Individualism. --- Economics --- Equality --- Political science --- Self-interest --- Sociology --- Libertarianism --- Personalism --- Persons --- Self-government --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- History and criticism. --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Twain, Mark, --- Howells, William Dean, --- Howells, W. D. --- Howells, William D. --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- American, --- Author of the Pioneers, --- Author of The spy, --- Cooper, Fenimore, --- Cooper, J. Fenimore --- Honorary member of the U.S. Naval Lyceum, --- Kuper, Džems Fenimor, --- Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor, --- Kuper, Fenimor, --- Morgan, Jane, --- Pioneers, Author of the, --- Spy, Author of the, --- Купер, Джеймс Фенимор, --- קפר, פ., --- קופעער, ג'ימס --- קופער, פ., --- קופר, פ. --- קופר, ג׳אמס פנימור, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cooper, Fenimore --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Kuper, Džems Fenimor --- Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor --- Kuper, Fenimor --- Morgan, Jane --- Pioneers, Author of the --- Spy, Author of the --- Купер, Джеймс Фенимор

The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance
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ISBN: 9780511485671 9780521865395 9780521073042 0511241879 9780511241871 9780511242038 0511242034 0511240856 9780511240850 0511241372 9780511241376 0511485670 0521865395 1107169879 9781107169876 1280567759 9781280567759 0511318081 9780511318085 0521073049 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotional rather than physical characteristics. By doing so they produced the idea of 'racial sentiment': the notion that different races feel different things, and feel things differently. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ought to be reconsidered in this light. This study reveals how American literature of the 1820s helped form modern ideas about racial differences.

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American fiction --- Race in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- History and criticism. --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Beecher Stowe, Harriet --- Beecher Stowe, Henriette --- Beecher Stowe, H. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet --- Stowe, H. B. --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher --- -Stowe, Enriqueta B. --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, G. --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet --- Stou, Garriet Bicher --- -Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣ. --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher --- -Beecher-Stowe, Harriet --- Ssu-tʻu-huo --- Beecher-Stowe, H. --- Stowe, H. Beecher --- -Bētser-Stoou --- Crowfield, Christopher --- Beecher, H. --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ --- ביטשער סאאו --- ביטשער־סטאו --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער, --- סטו, ביצ׳ר, --- ハリエットビーチャーストウ, --- Cooper, Fenimore --- American, --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Cooper, J. Fenimore --- Kuper, Džems Fenimor --- Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor --- Kuper, Fenimor --- Morgan, Jane --- Pioneers, Author of the --- Spy, Author of the --- Купер, Джеймс Фенимор --- קפר, פ., --- קופעער, ג'ימס --- קופער, פ., --- קופר, פ. --- קופר, ג׳אמס פנימור, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Enslaved persons in literature

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