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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.

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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.

Novelists, American --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- 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, --- Childhood and youth. --- 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 --- Childhood and youth --- Novelists [American ] --- 19th century --- Biography --- Cooper, James Fenimore, -- 1789-1851.. --- Cooper, James Fenimore, -- 1789-1851 -- Childhood and youth.. --- Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.

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Historical fiction, American. --- Historical fiction, American --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American historical fiction --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- 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, --- Knowledge --- History. --- United States --- In literature. --- Historiography.

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Landscapes in literature --- Historical fiction, American --- Forests in literature --- Nature in literature --- History and criticism --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- -Landscape in literature --- Nature in poetry --- Landscape in literature --- American historical fiction --- American fiction --- Forests and forestry in literature --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- -Cooper, James Fenimore --- -Settings --- Views on environmental protection --- 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, --- Settings. --- Cooper, Fenimore --- Kuper, Džems Fenimor --- Kuper, Dzheĭms Fenimor --- Kuper, Fenimor --- Morgan, Jane --- Pioneers, Author of the --- Spy, Author of the --- Купер, Джеймс Фенимор --- Historical fiction, American - History and criticism --- Cooper, James Fenimore, - 1789-1851 - Leatherstocking tales --- Cooper (james fenimore), romancier americain, 1789-1851 --- Paysages dans la litterature --- Critique et interpretation

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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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