James Fenimore Cooper

The Complete Works
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1366-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 14652 Seiten

James Fenimore Cooper is chiefly known to posterity as the author of The Last of the Mohicans, focussing on the friendship between a Native American chief and a white hunter. Cooper himself acknowledged that it was his “Leatherstocking Tales” which were the most likely to endure of his work; yet this estimate understates Cooper’s significance as the most prolific and internationally-read American author of the first half of the nineteenth century. Fenimore Cooper developed a distinctive style well adapted to handling frontier, military and nautical romances, which won him great popularity and gave him entry to the leading figures in post-Napoleonic Europe. In consequence he also became one of the most sophisticated political and environmentalist thinkers of his time. His explicitly political writings and politically-involved novels won him both considerable influence and formidable social rejection. His environmental worries, perceptible in many of his works, anticipate today’s concerns. Cooper was also a significant historian, and broke new literary ground in writing a biography of an ordinary sailor when such works were always concerned with the “great and the good”. The breadth and significance of his output remains widely under-recognised, and too many of his works hard to find.

This edition of the Complete Works of Fenimore Cooper not only includes the well-known novels, but obscure early fictional works and the significant non-fictional works, including the naval histories and biographies, the pioneering biography Ned Myers, travel writing, and the political pamphlets which were of great importance in Cooper’s time. The contents of the volumes are as follows:

Volume 1 (333 pp.): Precaution; Introduction to the Works by Dr. Bob Lawson-Peebles
Volume 2 (335 pp.): The Spy
Volume 3 (94 pp.): Tales for Fifteen
Volume 4 (417 pp.): The Deerslayer (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 1)
Volume 5 (316 pp.): The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 2)
Volume 6 (378 pp.): The Pathfinder (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 3)
Volume 7 (367 pp.): The Pioneers (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 4)
Volume 8 (348 pp.): The Prairie (Leatherstocking Tales vol. 5)
Volume 9 (342 pp.): The Pilot
Volume 10 (324 pp.): Lionel Lincoln
Volume 11 (351 pp.): The Red Rover
Volume 12 (312 pp.): The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish
Volume 13 (336 pp.): The Water-Witch
Volume 14 (325 pp.): The Bravo
Volume 15 (310 pp.): The Heidenmauer
Volume 16 (334 pp.): The Headsman
Volume 17 (309 pp.): The Monikins
Volume 18 (370 pp.): Homeward Bound
Volume 19 (343 pp.): Home as Found
Volume 20 (374 pp.): Mercedes of Castile
Volume 21 (375 pp.): The Two Admirals
Volume 22 (349 pp.): The Wing-and-Wing
Volume 23 (346 pp.): Wyandotté
Volume 24 (117 pp.): Autobiography Of a Pocket-Handkerchief
Volume 25 (387 pp.): Afloat and Ashore
Volume 26 (329 pp.): Miles Wallingford
Volume 27 (356 pp.): Satanstoe (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 1)
Volume 28 (340 pp.): The Chainbearer (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 2)
Volume 29 (374 pp.): The Redskins (Littlepage Manuscripts vol. 3)
Volume 30 (340 pp.): The Crater
Volume 31 (350 pp.): Jack Tier
Volume 32 (343 pp.): The Oak Openings
Volume 33 (331 pp.): The Sea Lions
Volume 34 (347 pp.): The Ways of the Hour
Volume 35 (94 pp.): Point de Bateaux à Vapeur, The Lake Gun, Upside Down, reviews of Sedgwick's "A New-England Tale" and Irving's "Bracebridge Hall"
Volume 36 (455 pp.): Notions of the Americans
Volume 37 (138 pp.): The American Democrat
Volume 38 (215 pp.): Review of "An Examination of the New Tariff", Slavery in the United States, Letter to General Lafayette, A Letter to His Countrymen, writings on the Three Mile Point controversy, American and European Scenery Compared, New York
Volume 39 (124 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland
Volume 40 (220 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
Volume 41 (238 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: France
Volume 42 (248 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: England
Volume 43 (239 pp.): Gleanings in Europe: Italy
Volume 44 (551 pp.): History of the Navy of the United States
Volume 45 (274 pp.): Naval Biographies
Volume 46 (178 pp.):

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fenimore Cooper, James

Über Autor(innen)

Fenimore Cooper, James
Dr. Bob Lawson-Peebles is Senior Lecturer in English at Exeter University and a graduate of Sussex (BA, MA) and Oxford (DPhil) Universities. He has lectured in the UK and the US, and has research interests in transatlantic relations, earlier American literature, the cultural history of environmentalism, and modern American cultural history. He has published, among much else, essays on Fenimore Cooper and a monograph on American Literature Before 1880.

Dr. Bob Lawson-Peebles is Senior Lecturer in English at Exeter University and a graduate of Sussex (BA, MA) and Oxford (DPhil) Universities. He has lectured in the UK and the US, and has research interests in transatlantic relations, earlier American literature, the cultural history of environmentalism, and modern American cultural history. He has published, among much else, essays on Fenimore Cooper and a monograph on American Literature Before 1880.