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Â Literary Encyclopedia: Cooper, James Fenimore

In addition to displaying his impressive knowledge of nautical matters and his taste for high adventure, Cooper showed how the sea, far from being merely the scene of the action, could be turned into a living presence and even the leading character of the story.
The American republic is the standard against which European oligarchies, past and present, are measured, and the lens through which their evils are magnified.
For the embattled and bitter author of these novels was able to imbue them with a powerful yearning for an idealized America of the spirit, an Eden-like landscape where his hero, after a couple of brief brushes with love, could retreat to become one with nature.

http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1009

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Â Chapter 2. James Fenimore Cooper. Van Doren, Carl. 1921. The American Novel

Cooper’s imagination, having worked first upon Revolutionary material and having succeeded with an historical romance which won the loudest applause, was approved on the American stage, and promptly reached European readers, now turned with characteristic energy in another direction, to the matter of the Frontier.
Certainly it was his superior technical knowledge of ships and sailors which helped him to write such sea tales as give him, in that province of romance, still a high rank among many followers.
Beguiling as his conception of the series was, Cooper was not fitted, by breadth either of knowledge or of temper, to succeed in it; and his initial failure seems his ultimate good fortune.

http://www.bartleby.com/187/3.html

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Â Heath Anthology of American Literature 4/e James Fenimore Cooper - Author Page

But, as Cooper himself knew, the novels for which he would be best remembered are his five Leather-stocking tales.
Although Temple ultimately is exonerated from the charge of usurpation, Cooper’s ambivalence toward the authority of the patriarch—the novel both shores up such authority and undercuts it—is an interesting and energizing aspect of this novel and of the Leather-stocking tales as a whole.
Shortly thereafter, in 1826, Cooper published the second of the Leather-stocking tales, The Last of the Mohicans, set during the French and Indian War when Natty Bumppo was in vigorous middle age.

http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/cooper_ja.html

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Â James Fennimore Cooper

Cooper's later works include Satanstoe (1845), a historical novel of manners, The Chainbearer (1845), and The Red-Skins (1846), which form the trilogy called The Littlepage Manuscripts.
From 1826 to 1833, the Coopers lived in Europe, where James wrote romances and unsuccessful books about democracy, politics, and society.
He was especially inspired by Italy while living in Tasso's villa at Sorrento, but literary meetings in London annoyed him.

http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-091503-cooper.html

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Website devoted to Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888), usually known as F.O.C. Darley, whose illustrations for the 1859-1861 W.A. Townsend and Co. edition of Cooper's works are the best known illustrations covering all of Cooper's 32 novels.
Karl May (1842-1912) was a German author who wrote over 60 enormously popular novels, many relating to Cooper's frontier tales.
In 1998 Gérard Macé, a distinguished French poet/essayist, published his luminous and beautiful Le Dernier des Egyptiens, showing how Natty Bumppo's search for signs in the wilderness helped inspire Champollion's search for signs in Egyptian hieroglyphics and his ultimate translation of the Rosetta Stone.

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/links.html

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Â Book Reviews - 'William Cooper's Town' and 'A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece.'

Cooper was the kind of man who made pioneering possible.
He purchased vast tracts of woodland and then sold or leased them to individual settlers.
Cooper's remarkable life transcended his humble origins as a nearly illiterate wheelwright and his flamboyantly flawed ethics.

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues96/aug96/bookrev_aug96.html

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Â The Classic Text: James Fenimore Cooper

His first novel, Precaution (1820), a domestic comedy set in England, lost money, but Cooper had discovered his vocation.
His public was simultaneously touched romantically at the doomed Indians' fate and justified in abetting their extermination.
ooper established his reputation after his second novel, The Spy, and in his third book, the autobiographical Pioneers (1823), Cooper introduced the character of Natty Bumppo, a uniquely American personification of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit.

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg134.htm

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Â Books about Cooper

"Suggested by J. Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; illustrated with scenes from the photoplay.
Kelly, William P., Plotting America's Past: Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales.
* Valtiala, Kaarle-Juhani (Nalle), James Fenimore Cooper's Landscapes in the Leather-Stocking Tales and other Forest Tales.

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/bibliography/books.html

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Â The Cooper Genealogy

WILLIAM COOPER, son of Samuel and Grace (Ridge) Cooper.
In 1850 J.F. Cooper received word that Isaac had died.
The chart based on the genealogy does not include Mary or her son William.

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/biographic/genealogy/wrightgenealogy.html

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Â Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses: Bibliography

"Scott on Cooper and Brockden Brown." Modern Language Notes, 45 (1930), 18-20.
"The Sources of Cooper's Knowledge of Fort William Henry." American Literature, 36 (1964), 209-214.
"Lapsarians on The Prairie : Cooper's Novel." Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 4 (Spring), 49-57.

http://www.channel1.com/users/bobwb/cooper/bibliog.htm

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Â Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy

Burke was a man of 40, used to authority, while Wills was only 27, and though a better bushman was disinclined to press his views too much.
Wills was a man of fine character and great courage as his last letter to his father shows.
There is some doubt about the name of his mother, but there is reason to believe that originally it was Catherine Williams (Melbourne).

http://www.gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html

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Â AllRefer.com - romanticism (Literature, General) - Encyclopedia

• Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pEre), 1802–70, French novelist and dramatist

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/romantic.html

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Â 1996 Pulitzer Prizes-HISTORY, Works

Becoming rich and influential, William struggled to remake himself as a gentleman, ruling as a benevolent father over a harmonious and deferential community, and imprinting his vision upon the land and its settlers.
Drawing upon his childhood memories of the New York frontier, the son created the historical fictions that made him the most popular, influential, and controvers ial American novelist of the early nineteenth century.
During the decade after his death in 1809, the family wealth dissolved when his children could not cope with a growing tangle of debts.

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/history/works/

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Â William Cooper Exhibit

And rather than Aryans that will save mankind, it will be tall blond angelic beings from the Pleiades.
Cooper stuck to his story, however, and replied that he really did see that document in 1972.
Cooper also reprints some documents which purportedly show the "U.S. Army Intelligence Connection with [the] Satanic Church." Michael Aquino, leader of the "Temple of Set," it seems, is also a member of U.S. Army Intelligence.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Embassy/1154/WilliamCooperExhibit.html

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Â Books : William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

That's a pretty pretentious word to use and Taylor's book does begin to plod at some points but I think this is a fascinating account of early American pioneers.
William Cooper lived through the most prolific time of change in American history.
Taylor looks at William Cooper, the father of the author James Fennimore Cooper and his founding of a town in the wilderness of western NEw York just after the Revolution.

http://www.romeojuliet.com/books/default/item_id/0679773002/search_type/AsinSearch/locale/us.html

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Â Scenes

But William Cooper's light, humorous touch never deserts him, even at the book's darkest moments.
William Cooper learned his trade in the days when such things were an essential part of a self-taught novelist's rigorous training.
William Cooper's last novel is the final work in a sequence of five going back to the post-War years.

http://www.smallersky.com/Scenes.htm

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Â JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

For more about this book, see The House of Beadle and Adams, I, 148, and the additions given in this supplement.
According to Spiller and Blackburn it is "attributed to Cooper." Its first appearance in book form was as No. 4 of Irwin P. Beadle's American Novels.
James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, was born in Burlington, N. J., September 15, 1789, the son of William Cooper and his wife Elizabeth Fenimore.

http://www.niulib.niu.edu/badndp/cooper_james.html

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Â William Cooper's Town -- Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic -- Alan Taylor

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An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic.
Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social forms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.

http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0679773002

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Â Behold a Pale Horse [ABRIDGED] by William Cooper (Audio Cassette )

But what makes this book so good is he actually believes alot of the stuff he's saying.
I wonder how good of a screenwriter or novelist this guy could have been.
Behold a Pale Horse [ABRIDGED] by William Cooper (Audio Cassette)

http://www.smoothreading.com/childrens%2Dbooks/The-Unexplained/-1574530720.htm

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Â Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (C)

Made living as artist and poet after 1843.
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789 - 1851: A novelist, extremely popular in his day, and still popular today.
Source: Taylor, William Cooper's Town (which includes pictures of him) and DAB.

http://www.jmisc.net/BIOG-C.htm

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Â William Dean Howells - Free Online Library

Venetian Life (1866) and Italian Journey (1867), when published, brought Howells recognition, but his novels, Their Wedding Journey (1872) and The Lady of the Aroostook (1879), were published with little notice.
William Dean Howells was born on March 1st, 1837 in Martinsville, Ohio, the son of Mary Dean Howells and William Cooper Howells.
It was A Modern Instance (1882) that turned Howell into a well-respected novelist.

http://howells.thefreelibrary.com/

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Â James Matthew Barrie - Free Online Library

Barrie observed his classmates like an outsider; they were tall and interested in girls, while he remained small and apparently he never had a girl friend.
During World War I, Barrie made a western film with his literary friends, starring Shaw, William Archer, G.K. Chesterton, etc.
Doyle was the only member who could actually play cricket.

http://barrie.thefreelibrary.com/

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Â Timeline

Popul Vuh, an NEH-funded translation of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, wins the PEN Translation Prize for Poetry.
The final volumes of The Papers of William Penn and The Complete Works of St. Thomas More are published.
Novelist Saul Bellow delivers the sixth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, "The Writer and His Country Look Each Other Over," in Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/timeline.html

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Â James Fenimore Cooper House

In 1923, the house was acquired by the Burlington County Historical Society, which also owns the adjacent Bard-How House and James Lawrence House.
It has now been restored and contains four museum rooms displaying Cooper artifacts, implements and furnishings, along with objects from the estate of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother who settled not far from Burlington after the battle of Waterloo.

http://08016.com/cooper-house.html