What James Fenimore Cooper has to tell us about our ... Cooper divides his book into 46 little ... I made this point earlier, or had Cooper make it, but it is worth remaking. More ...

James Fenimore Cooper is an old-fashioned author, his work the dense, compulsory stuff of mid-level literature-survey courses. Surely, his life and career could have no bearing on our era.

This volume, the first installment of a projected two-volume study of James Fenimore Cooper, covers Cooper’s life from his birth in 1789 to his departure with his family in 1826 for an extended ...