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James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man to Author
Get PDFThis article provides a biographical look at the American author James Fenimore Cooper. It traces his roots from his youth in Cooperstown—named after his father William—to his ill-timed naval career, and on to his time as a self-conscious novelist
James Fenimore Cooper
No full textThis article is intended to provide an introduction to James Fenimore Cooper's life and works
Maritime Matters on the Northwest Coast and Other Affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company in Early Times:
Get PDFCooper, James. “Maritime matters on the Northwest Coast and affairs of the Hudson’s Bay Company in early times”. 1878. Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. BANC MSS P-C 6. Summary: Describes his maritime service with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1844, and the early development of Victoria and Vancouver Island. Primarily an account of the Hudson's Bay Company control over the region and the evolution of local and provincial government
Notions of the Americans
No full textThe '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.</jats:p
Notions of the Americans
No full textThe '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.</jats:p
A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
No full textThis thesis is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed byWilliam James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasizethe subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly littlecomparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two ways.Firstly, I make a brief assessment of what James knew of Kierkegaard’s work.Secondly, I draw four comparisons between Kierkegaard and James. In Chapter One Iexamine the claim that Kierkegaard proposes a pragmatist account of faith of the kindthat James sets out in his essay The Will To Believe. I argue that this claim rests on amisunderstanding of Kierkegaard’s argument that to have faith is to take a risk. In thefollowing chapter I discuss James’s and Kierkegaard’s views on formal proofs for theexistence of God. Both philosophers reject the notion that faith can be based on suchproofs. I distinguish between their positions, and argue in favour of Kierkegaard’s. Inthe third chapter I compare Kierkegaard’s and James’s accounts of religious experience.James views religious experiences as a special kind of evidence for the existence ofGod. For Kierkegaard it is a mistake to view religious experiences as evidence. Suchexperiences should be understood in relation to the concept of religious authority. In thefinal chapter I examine Kierkegaard’s conception of faith as a life-view. I argue that forKierkegaard a life-view is a fundamental perspective on one’s existence. I compare thisconception with James’s concept of philosophical temperament and in relation to hisdiscussion of the sick soul
A biographical notice of Com. Jesse D. Elliot; containing a review of the controversy between him and the late Commodore Perry; a history of the figure-head of the U. S. Frigate Constitution /
No full textAttributed also, erroneously? to James Fenimore Cooper.Mode of access: Internet.BEIN Za C786 A835 Copy 2: Bookplate and autograph of Henry Frederick Phinney. Autograph, ms. notes and book label of J. Fenimore Cooper
Biblical Allusion and William Cooper in James Fenimore Cooper’s \u3cem\u3eThe Pioneers \u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFIn his article entitled The Novel as a Religious Tract, William M. Hogue has identified persistent and wide-ranging allusions to Episcopalianism in the works of James Fenimore Cooper. The author of the Leatherstocking Tales, we are told, \u27\u27preached his favorite orthodoxies incessantly in the pulpit most accessible to him—(in) his fiction. As Hague\u27s survey indicates, from early in his career until late, Cooper frequently expressed his views on Episcopalianism, most notably by making most of his heroes and heroines Episcopalians and by having his unpleasant characters belong to the Puritan-descended denominations. But the Christian tradition is important to Cooper in more substantial ways—especially in The Pioneers. This essay examines the allusions to the Bible in The Pioneers; these references to the Old Testament define more clearly the moral center of Cooper\u27s novel. Since this interpretation necessarily involves discussion of the novelist\u27s father, William Cooper, it is necessary first to examine his relationship to the novel
Navigating the Transatlantic threshold: James Fenimore Cooper and the revolutionary Atlantic
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate the invention of the American sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper in the early nineteenth century and how this relates to the socio/political tensions within transatlatic relationships.
The thesis focuses upon Fenimore Cooper's first three sea romances, The Pilot (1826), The Red Rover (1827) and the Water Witch (1830). By discussing how far these novels resonate with the conventions of the historical romance and how far they attempt to establish a sense of nautical realism, this thesis illuminates Cooper as an author less aligned from his usualy portrayal as a literary republican and more of a moderate federalist
Navigating the Transatlantic threshold: James Fenimore Cooper and the revolutionary Atlantic
No full textThis study aims to investigate the invention of the American sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper in the early nineteenth century and how this relates to the socio/political tensions within transatlatic relationships.
The thesis focuses upon Fenimore Cooper's first three sea romances, The Pilot (1826), The Red Rover (1827) and the Water Witch (1830). By discussing how far these novels resonate with the conventions of the historical romance and how far they attempt to establish a sense of nautical realism, this thesis illuminates Cooper as an author less aligned from his usualy portrayal as a literary republican and more of a moderate federalist
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