Notions of the Americans : picked up by a travelling bachelor

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Notions of the Americans : picked up by a travelling bachelor

James Fenimore Cooper

(Cambridge library collection, . History)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Reprint. Originally published: London : Henry Colburn, 1828

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108003858

Description

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. To Sir Frederick Waller
  • 2. To the Baron von Kemperfelt
  • 3. To the same
  • 4. To the same
  • 5. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.
  • 6. To the same
  • 7. To the same
  • 8. To the Baron von Kemperfelt
  • 9. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 10. To the same
  • 11. To the same
  • 12. To the same
  • 13. To the same
  • 14. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.
  • 15. To the same
  • 16. To the same
  • 17. To the same
  • Notes.
Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108003865

Description

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans.

Table of Contents

  • 1. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 2. To the Abbate Giromachi
  • 3. To the same
  • 4. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 5. To the Baron von Kemperfelt
  • 6. To the Abbate Giromachi
  • 7. To the same
  • 8. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 9. To the Professor Christian Jansen
  • 10. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.
  • 11. To the same
  • 12. To the Professor Jansen
  • 13. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 14. To the Abbate Giromachi
  • 15. To the Professor Christian Jansen
  • 16. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.
  • 17. To the same
  • 18. To the same
  • 19. To the Count Jules de Bethizy
  • 20. To the same
  • 21. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.
  • Notes.

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