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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851, American novelist, b. Burlington, N.J., as James Cooper. He was the first important American writer to draw on the subjects and landscape of his native land in order to create a vivid myth of frontier life. In 1790 Cooper's family moved to Cooperstown, N.Y., a ... Read more
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, 1st earl of
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, 1st earl of 1621-83, English statesman. In the English civil war he supported the crown until 1644 but then joined the parliamentarians. He was made a member of the Commonwealth council of state and supported Oliver Cromwell until 1654, when he turned against the ... Read more
Cooperstown
Cooperstown residential and resort village (1990 pop. 2,180), seat of Otsego co., E central N.Y., on the Susquehanna River and Otsego Lake; inc. 1807. It was founded by William Cooper, who brought his family there in 1790. His son, James Fenimore Cooper , made his home in Cooperstown after 1836, a... Read more
James Shaver Woodsworth
James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942, Canadian politician. Having done social welfare work while serving as a Methodist minister, he later gave up the ministry to devote himself wholly to labor and welfare causes. Supported by the Independent Labour party, he entered the Canadian House of Commons in 1... Read more
Robert Montgomery Bird
Robert Montgomery Bird 1806-54, American playwright and novelist, b. New Castle, Del., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1827. He wrote several prizewinning verse plays for the actor Edwin Forrest , notably The Gladiator (1831) and The Broker of Bogota (1834). A financial misunderstanding led to a b... Read more
William Goffe
William Goffe , d. c.1679, English soldier and regicide. A personal adherent of Oliver Cromwell, he fought in the English civil war, signed the death warrant of Charles I, and became an administrative major general during the Protectorate. He was excepted from the Act of Indemnity (at the Restoratio... Read more
Oswego
Oswego , city (1990 pop. 19,195), seat of Oswego co., N central N.Y., on Lake Ontario and the Oswego River; founded 1722, inc. as a city 1848. The largest U.S. port on Lake Ontario, it is a port of entry and a northern terminus of the New York State Canal System . The city's manufactures include st... Read more
William Gilmore Simms
William Gilmore Simms 1806-70, American novelist, b. Charleston, S.C. He wrote prolifically, both prose and poetry, but it is for his historical romances about his own state that he is remembered and often compared with James Fenimore Cooper . His tales of the Southern frontier include Guy Rivers... Read more
Hudson River school
Hudson River school group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. At the same time, American painters were stud... Read more
Mohegan
Mohegan , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Also called the Mohican, they were the eastern branch of the Mahican . In the early 17th cent. the Mohegan occupied most of SE Connecticut,... Read more

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James Fenimore Cooper
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography James Fenimore Cooper Novelist and social critic James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was the first major American writer to deal imaginatively with American life, notably in his five "Leather-Stocking Tales." He was also a critic of the...
Cooper, James Fenimore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851), novelist.Brought up in Cooperstown...Literature: Early National and Antebellum Eras . Bibliography James Grossman , James Fenimore Cooper , 1949. Stephen Railton
Cooper, Susan Fenimore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813–94), daughter of J.F. Cooper , to whose works she added biographical prefaces. She was the author of Rural Hours (1850), journal jottings on nature and life at Cooperstown, and William West Skiles...
Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Woolson, Constance Fenimore (1840–94), New Hampshire‐born grandniece of Cooper, spent her youth mainly in Ohio, of which she wrote in her early local‐color stories and novels. Castle Nowhere...
Cooperstown
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...was founded by William Cooper, who brought his family there in 1790. His son, James Fenimore Cooper , made his home...Leatherstocking Tales. Fenimore House is the headquarters...Other museums include the Fenimore Art Museum, the Farmers...
American literature
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...century writers, such as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were influenced by European romanticism. The...and precursors of a new realism) were Henry James and Mark Twain . While James emigrated to Europe and embraced psychological...
Prairie Region
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...the late 18th and early 19th century, described by James Fenimore Cooper and others, the Prairie states have become the nation...authors include Edward Eggleston, Booth Tarkington, James Whitcomb Riley, and other Hoosiers; Wisconsin writers...
Spy, the; or a Tale of the Neutral Ground
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...him and his true position is recognized. Based on James Fenimore Cooper's then popular novel, the play (opening ten weeks...and its success prompted the dramatization of more Cooper novels, as well as other authors' works. C [harles...
William J. and Charles H. Mayo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his wife, Louise Abigail (Wright) Mayo. William James Mayo was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota, on June 29...including novels by the authors Charles Dickens and James Fenimore Cooper. These readings, as well as their parents' stories...
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford (1838–1915), professor of English literature at Yale, was the author of A History of the English Language (1879), a life of James Fenimore Cooper (1882), and Shakespearean Wars (3 vols., 1901–6).

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Leatherstocking Tales
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...LEATHERSTOCKING TALES LEATHERSTOCKING TALES. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, featuring...1841). From the beginning, Cooper's works met with success, and...of the United States. Many of Cooper's characters went on to become...
Perry-Elliott Controversy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...during the engagement. President James Monroe did not pursue the charges...controversy raged on. In 1839 James Fenimore Cooper was violently attacked by Perry...x2013; Hill, 1978. Mills, James Cooke. Oliver Hazard Perry and...
Westerns
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...fiction had been popular since James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (1823...Wayne, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, and Barbara Stanwyck...1955 – 1975), starring James Arness and Amanda Blake, the adult...
Urbanization
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...makers, by implication, trailed far to the rear. From James Fenimore Cooper's novels and Theodore Roosevelt's Winning of the...north and south along the river. Charleston faced the Cooper River and the Atlantic beyond its barrier islands...
Wildlife Preservation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...In his best-selling series Leatherstocking Tales, James Fenimore Cooper expertly combined a Romantic vision of the wilderness...emphasis on the uniqueness of the American environment. Cooper employed the idea that man should govern resources...
Pathfinder
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Pathfinder in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, one of the names given to Natty Bumppo . Pathfinder was also the name of an unmanned American spacecraft which landed on Mars in 1997, deploying a small robotic rover (Sojourner) to explore the surface and examine the rocks.
Leatherstocking
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Leatherstocking nickname of Natty Bumppo , the hero of The Pioneers (1823) and four other novels of American frontier life by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851).
Bumppo, Natty
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...hero of The Pioneers (1823) and four other novels (the Leatherstocking series) of American frontier life by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851); his name may be used for the type of a frontiersman of the period, with particular...
Forestry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...in the colonial period continued in the early Republic, some began to forecast a national timber shortage. In James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel, The Pioneers, for example, one character warns of "felling the forests as if no end could be...
Hudson River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...mountains also served as a favored locale in the literary works of such American writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. The river has paid a price for progress and development. By the twentieth century, the Hudson had become a...

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Fenimore Cooper's America. (author James Fenimore Cooper)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Twentieth-century readers know the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper as the author of the five `Leatherstocking Tales...narrative voice conveys a powerful self-assurance, James Fenimore Cooper, in fact, became a novelist during the early...
Killing Tom Coffin: rethinking the nationalist narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...have always meant that they should be my grave. --James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot Set during the Revolutionary War, James Fenimore Cooper's first maritime novel, The Pilot (1824...
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years...University Press, 2007 752 pp. James Fenimore Cooper's status in American...cultural origins. And yet, Cooper remains something of a...Whitman, and Dickinson. Coopers reputation has waxed and...
Cooperstown: village of legends; the home of baseball legends and the legendary novels of James Fenimore Cooper is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 10/1/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...inheritors and custodians of American lore. Here James Fenimore Cooper, the first major American novelist and the author...of snowflakes on the statue of a rather brooding James Fenimore Cooper that stands on the site of the former Cooper...
Fall classic: Cooperstown, New York--now the nation's baseball shrine--was once home base for James Fenimore Cooper. (Locations).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Book; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...became Baseball Central, James Fenimore Cooper immortalized this tiny...same red brick buildings Cooper grew up with and later...the stone home where Cooper's sister Ann lived with...William, in 1810. When James returned in 1834 from...
Student companion to James Fenimore Cooper.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 451 words ; 0313334137 Student companion to James Fenimore Cooper. White, Craig. Greenwood Press 2006 209 pages...general readers to the major works of American novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). Each book in the series...
James Fenimore Cooper, Novelist of Manners.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...1993). 142 pp. $29.50. In James Fenimore Cooper, Novelist of Manners, Donald...manners theme" through fifteen of Cooper's novels, from Precaution...and misses others altogether. Cooper is a great novelist of ideas...
Cross-cultural hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
Magazine article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly); 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Scholars of James Fenimore Cooper have generally interpreted The Last...disappear. Typically, approaches to Cooper's novel draw on sources such as Rousseau...perhaps explain the extreme popularity of Cooper's Leatherstocking series among nineteenth...
ALBANY HISTORY ALIVE AGAIN SUNYA PRESS REISSUES 1845 NOVEL BY JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/19/1990; 700+ words ; ...Satanstoe," an 1845 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. SUNY Press released the new edition...American Lady," was also used by James Kirke Paulding as a source for...it was so controversial, said James Elliott, associate professor of...
James Fenimore Cooper versus the cult of domesticity; progressive themes of femininity and family in the novels.(AMERICAN LITERATURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 491 words ; PS1442 2005-003510 0-7864-2128-2 James Fenimore Cooper versus the cult of domesticity; progressive themes...more comprehensive discussion of American novelist Cooper's (1789-1851) view of family dynamics than she...