Reading Cooper, teaching Cooper
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Reading Cooper, teaching Cooper
(AMS studies in the nineteenth century, no. 38)
AMS Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-407) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of 19 lively, informative, and readable essays, intended as a companion to a study of Cooper, will encourage serious and renewed discussion for twenty-first century readings of America's first successful and popular novelist. The volume's contributors, internationally-known Cooper scholars, establish an appropriate context for discussing the author across disciplines from language and literature to American Studies and history. Their essays provide appropriate paths to understanding Cooper's literary biography; reveal the range of his oeuvre (including his romances of forest and sea, tales of revolutionary and colonial history, and novels of politics and society); and present the untold story of his reputation and influence on later writers, in America and abroad. The volume is also an invaluable sourcebook of practical materials and historical context. Essays identify textually reliable and readily available editions of Cooper's fiction and non-fiction; survey primary and secondary materials including film adaptations; and trace for the reader the development of relevant American attitudes towards democracy, race, and environment. The critical discussions and useful resources in ""Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper"" will benefit scholars, teachers, and students by providing an informed basis for the appreciation of Cooper's life and the impact of his literary career.
Table of Contents
- Jeffrey Walker, ""Reading Cooper, Talking Cooper, Teaching Cooper
- Or, An Introduction""
- Kay Seymour House, ""Is Fenimore Cooper Obsolete?""
- John McWilliams, ""Stumps in Clearing the Classroom Forest""
- Allan M. Axelrad, ""The Shock of Recognition: Twain and Lawrence Read Cooper""
- Robert Daly, ""From World to Word and Back Again: Coopers Now and Next""
- William P. Kelly, ""Republican Fictions: Cooper and the Revolution""
- James A. Sappenfield, ""Cooper as Experimental Novelist""
- Wayne Franklin, ""James Fenimore Cooper: The Biographical Matrix""
- Lance Schachterle, ""Cooper's Works in Print""
- Matthew Wynn Sivils, ""'Yours Truly, THE AUTHOR': Cooper's Leatherstocking Prefaces""
- William Merrill Decker, ""'Surely Cora Was Not Forgotten': Remembering Africa in the Leatherstocking Tales""
- Barbara Alice Mann, ""Fancy Girls: The Creole and the Quadroon in Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales""
- David Callahan, ""Cooper's Androgynous Heroes""
- Leland S. Person, ""Cooper's Otsego: Land to Rove for a Man's Life""
- Signe O. Wegener, ""Reversing the Courtship Novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer""
- David Cody, ""James Fenimore Cooper and the Imperial Fantasy""
- Gladys S. Lewis, ""Fenimore Cooper's Cinematic Legacy: Indiana Jones, the Cartwrights, and Spock's Ears""
- Judith Richardson, ""The 'Littlepages' of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Local History in the Lower Hudson Valley""
- Nalle Valtiala, ""Cooper's European Landscapes""
- Stephen Carl Arch, ""Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offense: The 'Homely' Truth of Cooper's Satire in Home As Found""
- Bibliography
- Index.
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