Cooper Today: A Partisan View
- Cooper Today: A Partisan View
Donald A. Ringe, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a member of the Editorial Board of the SUNY edition of The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper and with his late wife edited Lionel Lincoln. He has recently published an updated edition of his James Fenimore Cooper (1988) and is at work on a book on the transatlantic book trade.
Notes
1. See the essays in this issue by House, 9–19, and Philbrick, 35–45.
2. See Walter Sutton, “Cooper as Found–1949,” University of Kansas City Review 16 (1949), 9–10.
3. Howard Mumford Jones, “Prose and Pictures: James Fenimore Cooper,” Tulane Studies in English 3 (1952), 135. The comments of Winters may be found in Yvor Winters, Maule’s Curse: Seven Studies in the History of American Obscurantism (Norfolk, 1938), 40–41.
4. Vernon L. Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800–1860 (New York, 1927), 237.
5. Robert E. Spiller, Fenimore Cooper: Critic of His Times (New York, 1931), 317.
6. Robert E. Spiller, The Cycle of American Literature: An Essay in Historical Criticism (New York, 1955), 42.
7. See Philbrick’s essay, 35–45.
8. Leon Howard, review of Thomas Philbrick, James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Fiction 17 (1962), 194–195.
9. Allan M. Axelrad, “Wish Fulfillment in the Wilderness: D.H. Lawrence and the Leatherstocking Tales,” American Quarterly 39 (1987), 563–585.
10. See H. Daniel Peck, A World By Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper’s Fiction (New Haven, 1977), 82, 86–87; and Warren Motley, The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch (New York, 1987), 110, 122.
11. Charles A. Brady, “Myth-Maker and Christian Romancer,” in Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., ed., American Classics Reconsidered: A Chrıstian Appraisal (New York, 1958), 78.
