Cooper and the Literary Discovery of the Sea
- Cooper and the Literary Discovery of the Sea
Thomas Philbrick is emeritus professor of English, University of Pittsburgh. Recent publications include the textual editing of Cooper’s Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (Albany: SUNY, 1986); “The American Revolution As a Literary Event” in Columbia Literary History of the United States (New York, 1988), and “Before Ahab” in Americana, no. 3 (Paris, 1989). Major work in progress is a scholarly edition of Cooper’s The Red Rover.
Notes
1. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (New York, 1931), 585.
2. See Donald Darnell’s essay in this issue, 47–55.
3. See Annette Kolodny, The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. (Chapel Hill, 1975).
4. James Fenimore Cooper, letter to Horatio Greenough, 13 June 1833, in The Letters and Journals, ed. James Franklin Beard. (Cambridge, 1960–1968), II, 384.
5. James Fenimore Cooper, Notions of the Americans, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1828), I, 14, 16.
6. G. Jean-Aubry, Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters, 2 vols, (New York, 1927), II, 73.
7. Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters. (London, 1921), 76.
