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Name: James Fenimore Cooper
Birth Date: September 15, 1789
Death Date: 1851
Place of Birth: Burlington, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, social critic, writer

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Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
18,288 words, approx. 61 pages
Throughout much of the nineteenth century James Fenimore Cooper was one of the most widely read novelists in the world and one of the most highly acclaimed. During his lifetime a series of well-publicized quarrels with his country caused his prestige...
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Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
13,238 words, approx. 44 pages
One hundred and fifty years ago Cooper was one of the world's most widely read novelists and one of the most highly acclaimed. During his lifetime a number of well-publicized quarrels with his country caused his prestige to suffer, but at his death in...
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Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
12,126 words, approx. 40 pages
James Fenimore Cooper sailed for Europe with his family on 1 June 1826 for a projected five-year visit. He left New York with the multiple aims of securing favorable European publication agreements for his works, furthering the education of his...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Spy: First American War Novel Summary
821 words, approx. 3 pages
When James Fenimore Cooper decided to write The Spy (1821), a narrative of manners set in the America of the Revolutionary War, he was certainly conscious of the fact that nothing of the kind already existed. Cooper justified his undertaking...
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Cooper, James Fenimore Summary
641 words, approx. 2 pages
(b. September 15, 1789; d. September 14, 1851) American writer known for early U.S. war novels. James Fenimore Cooper was part of the generation of writers who created the first distinctively American literature following the Revolutionary War....
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Cooper, James Fenimore Summary
1,964 words, approx. 7 pages
Born September 15, 1789 Burlington, New Jersey Died September 14, 1851 Cooperstown, New York Writer James Fenimore Cooper introduced the themes of the frontier, white/Indian conflict, and America's westward expansion as proper subjects for...
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James Fenimore Cooper Information
2,528 words, approx. 8 pages
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical romances known as the...


News and Journals
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Literary Pilgrimage in Upstate New York
9/11/2006: 1,482 words, approx. 5 pages
Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay composed and played...
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Mohegans restore ancient burial ground
6/22/2007: 628 words, approx. 2 pages
NORWICH, Conn. _ The Mohegans were wiped out long ago in the novel "The Last of the Mohicans," but today the real American Indian tribe is flush with casino cash and using it to restore its proud past.The Connecticut tribe has reclaimed the Mohegan Royal...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Lecture by William Cullen Bryant
10,909 words, approx. 36 pages
In the excerpt below, from the text of a lecture delivered in 1852 at a Public Memorial Meeting in honor of Cooper, Bryant surveys Cooper's career and assesses its significance.
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Critical Essay by Charles Hansford Adams
8,878 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Adams contends that Cooper was ambivalent toward the law in America because he "was impelled to believe—emotionally and intellectually—in the law's ability to achieve both social and individual integrity by the same set of historical and psychological conditions that encouraged him to reject the law as divisive. "
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Critical Essay by Thomas R. Lounsbury
6,140 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following excerpt, Lounsbury assesses the positive and negative characteristics of Cooper's writing.
 


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