TY - BOOK ID - 77869257 TI - James Fenimore Cooper PY - 2007 SN - 1281734802 9786611734800 0300135009 9780300135008 9780300108057 0300108052 9781281734808 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Novelists, American KW - Cooper, James Fenimore, KW - American, KW - Author of the Pioneers, KW - Author of The spy, KW - Cooper, Fenimore, KW - Cooper, J. Fenimore KW - Honorary member of the U.S. Naval Lyceum, KW - Kuper, Džems Fenimor, KW - Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor, KW - Kuper, Fenimor, KW - Morgan, Jane, KW - Pioneers, Author of the, KW - Spy, Author of the, KW - Купер, Джеймс Фенимор, KW - קפר, פ., KW - קופעער, ג'ימס KW - קופער, פ., KW - קופר, פ. KW - קופר, ג׳אמס פנימור, KW - Childhood and youth. KW - Cooper, Fenimore KW - Cooper, James Fenimore KW - Kuper, Džems Fenimor KW - Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor KW - Kuper, Fenimor KW - Morgan, Jane KW - Pioneers, Author of the KW - Spy, Author of the KW - Купер, Джеймс Фенимор KW - Childhood and youth KW - Novelists [American ] KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Cooper, James Fenimore, -- 1789-1851.. KW - Cooper, James Fenimore, -- 1789-1851 -- Childhood and youth.. KW - Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869257 AB - 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. ER -