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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.
"Wayne Franklin single-handedly restores Cooper to his rightful
place in American literature. . . . A towering
achievement."—H. Daniel Peck, author of Thoreau's Morning
Work
*H. Daniel Peck*
“No one has ever written a biography of Cooper that answers as many
questions, raises as many important historical issues, or provides
as much detail of the life of Cooper and his family or of much of
New York history in the late eighteenth century or the first half
of the nineteenth century. The publication of Franklin’s biography
is a major event.”—Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State
University
*Jeffrey Walker*
"A remarkable feat of scholarship and literary imagining. . . .
Franklin's book is meticulously researched and wonderfully
comprehensive. A biography of this subtlety of depth has been well
worth waiting for."—Hugh Egan, Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society
*Register of the Kentucky Historical Society*
"The biography is an engaging, well written account of an
important time, place, and career in American literary history. It
surprises, informs, and challenges the reader, and should be on the
reading list of any early or nineteenth-century Americanist."—Rocky
Mountain Review
*Rocky Mountain Review*
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