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Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered
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ISSN: 00699624 ISBN: 0313308381 9780313308383 Year: 1999 Volume: 192 Publisher: Westport ; London : Greenwood press,


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James Fenimore Cooper : the later years
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ISBN: 0300229100 9780300229103 9780300135718 0300135718 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press,

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A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure tale, and the Revolutionary War romance. America’s first crusading novelist, Cooper reminds us that literature is not a cloistered art; rather, it ought to be intimately engaged with the world. In this second volume of his definitive biography, Wayne Franklin concentrates on the latter half of Cooper’s life, detailing a period of personal and political controversy, far-ranging international travel, and prolific literary creation. We hear of Cooper’s progressive views on race and slavery, his doubts about American expansionism, and his concern about the future prospects of the American Republic, while observing how his groundbreaking career management paved the way for later novelists to make a living through their writing. Franklin offers readers the most comprehensive portrait to date of this underappreciated American literary icon.

Plotting America's past : Fenimore Cooper and the leatherstocking tales
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ISBN: 0585178852 9780585178851 0809311445 9780809311446 Year: 1983 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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.

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.

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

Dreaming revolution : transgression in the development of American romance
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ISBN: 1587290324 9781587290329 0877453950 9780877453956 Year: 1993 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more indisputable authority of human reason. In other words, democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions. In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans take the class dynamics of the European psychological novel and apply them to the American landscape, reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones. Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution, Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening these American novels to a richer and more rewarding reading.

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American fiction --- Politics and literature --- Literature and society --- Revolutionary literature, American --- Social conflict in literature. --- Romanticism --- Imperialism in literature. --- Political fiction, American --- Deviant behavior in literature. --- Dissenters in literature. --- Imperialism in literature --- Dissenters in literature --- Deviant behavior in literature --- Social conflict in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- American literature --- American revolutionary literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- European influences. --- History and criticism --- European influences --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Poe, Edgar Allan, --- Brown, Charles Brockden, --- Godwin, William, --- Po, Edgar, --- Boy, Ētkar, --- Poe, E. A. --- Poë, Edgard, --- Pui, ʼAggā ʼAyʻlaṅʻ, --- Pō, Eḍgār Ālen, --- Po, Edhar, --- Poe, Edgar Allen, --- Perry, Edgar A., --- По, Эдгар Аллан, --- По, Эдгар, --- פאו, עדגאר עלען --- פאו, עדגאר עלען, --- פא, אדגאר אלאן --- פא, עדגאר --- פא, עדגאר עלען, --- פו, אדגר --- פו, אדגר אלן --- פו, אדגר אלן, --- アランポオ, --- 愛倫坡, --- Po, Ailun, --- Quarles, --- 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, --- Political and social views. --- 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 --- Pau, Aiḍgar Elan, --- پو، ايڈگر ايلن

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