Cooper Titles Index

Updated October 2007

This webpage indexes articles and papers according to the works by Cooper with which they are particularly concerned. Only those that deal extensively with specific works or groups of works are included here.

Users may also seek relevant articles through the other finding aids at Articles & Papers.

The page is divided into three categories:
• Recognized Groups of Cooper Works:
• Individual Works (listed chronologically):
• Fiction
• Novels
• Other Fiction
• Non-fiction

Recognized Groups of Cooper Works

Listed here are papers and articles dealing with groups of Cooper works, generally or specifically. For papers or articles dealing only with specific books within a group, click on the appropriate title.
(We have not tried to list individually the many books within the Indian and Frontier and the Sea categories)

• All Cooper's Fiction
• Axelrad, Allan M. (University of Pennsylvania), History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1978. (x, 231 p.) © 1978 by Allan M. Axelrad, and placed on-line with his permission. A major and provocative study of Cooper's intellectual and religious views, as reflected in a detailed study of his novels and other writings. [Especially detailed treatment of The Bravo and The Crater] [WRITINGS]
• Walker, Warren S., Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. Archon Books/Dawson, 1978. (xi, 346 p.) © 1978, Warren S. Walker, and placed on-line with his permission. Detailed analysis of the plots of each of Cooper's novels and short stories. [WRITINGS]
• The Leatherstocking Tales: (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer)
• Alpern, Will J. (Prudential-Bache Securities), Indians, Sources, Critics. Cooper's sources, especially Moravian missionaries to the Mohegan/Mohicans of Connecticut/New York; efforts to discredit Cooper by Louis Cass and Mark Twain. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Alicino, Nicholas J. (SUNY-Oneonta), Character Development in Natty Bumppo. Paper originally given in George Test's Cooper Course at SUNY-Oneonta, in January 1979. Viewing the Leatherstocking Novels in their biographically-chronological order, rather than in the order written, nevertheless presents a coherent and persuasive portrait of Natty Bumppo's developing character. [1979 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Axelrad, Allan M. (California State University, Fullerton), From Mountain Gothic to Forest Gothic and Luminism: Changing Representations of the Landscape in the Leatherstocking Tales and in American Painting. How Cooper's views of landscape changed, both when he returned from Europe and later. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Ball, Hon. L. Chandler (Judge, Hoosick Falls, N.Y.), The Real "Natty" an Elder Brother. Claim (ca. 1870, oft-repeated, but unsubstantiated) that one Nathaniel Shipman of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., was the original for Cooper's Natty Bumppo. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Egger, Irmgard (University of Vienna), Cooper and German Readers. In reading Cooper Germans could dream of a freedom not found in daily life, as German children still do; but his socio/political criticism has been ignored. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Egger, Irmgard (University of Vienna), The Leatherstocking Tales as Adapted for German Juvenile Readers. Making Cooper fit -- literarily, morally, and politically -- for German youth. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Harthorn, Steven (University of Tennessee), What Happened to Cooper’s Sixth Leatherstocking Tale?. Did Cooper ever plan a Natty Bumppo novel set during the American Revolution? [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Kelly, William P. (Queens College, City University of New York), History, Language, and The Leatherstocking Tales. Historiography of later Tales contrasted with that of earler ones, and with Scott's Waverley novels. [1979 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Mani, Lakshmi (Rochester Institute of Technology), James Fenimore Cooper and the Apocalpyse. End-of-the world motifs in the Leatherstocking Tales and The Crater [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Morton, Richard (McMaster University), The Double Chronology of Leatherstocking. Reading the Leatherstocking Tales in order of their publication, or in the order of Natty Bumppo's fictional life, provides different insights; both are valid. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Rans, Geoffrey (University of Western Ontario), Ordering Leather-Stocking. Reading the Leather-Stocking Tales in the order of publication (rather than that of Natty Bumppo's life) enhances the reader's understanding of Cooper's complex meanings. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Shillinglaw, Susan (San Jose State University), Cooper's Fathers and Daughters: The Dialectic of Paternity. Cooper's brave patriarchs nurture dutiful but independent and sensitive daughters. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Sivils, Matthew Wynn (Oklahoma State University), Bears, Culture-Crossing, and the Leatherstocking Tales. Cooper's use of bears as symbols to discuss cross-cultural and cross-racial transitions. [2005 COOPER PANEL]
• Starna, William A. (SUNY Oneonta), Cooper's Indians: A Critique. Ethnohistorical background to the New York Indians of the Leatherstocking Tales. [1979 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (New York University), The Monikins. Radical ideas about property, cushioned by the use of animals (from the Hindu "Ramayana"??) in Cooper's "beast fable," compared with The American Democrat and the Leatherstocking Tales' Natty Bumppo. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (Culinary Institute of America), Cooper's Theory of Relativity: Time Travel in the Leatherstocking Tales. Musings on how Cooper asks us to look at time. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (Culinary Institute of America), Falsification of the Past: Cooper’s Legacy Reexamined and Reclaimed. Musings on Cooper, from Leatherstocking Tales death scenes to today's film and television. [2005 cooper seminar]
• Suzuki, Taisuke (Asahi University, Japan), The True Beginning of Native American Novels by James Fenimore Cooper and Helen Hunt Jackson. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and Jackson's Ramona (1884) as pioneering novels treating Native Americans seriously. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Wallace, Paul A.W. (Editor, Pennsylvania History), Cooper's Indians. Delawares and Iroquois ("Mingos") in the Leatherstocking Tales based on Heckewelder; legend of Delaware as "women" explored. [1954 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Wegener, Signe (University of Georgia), The Perils of Parenting: Parental Manipulation in The Leatherstocking Tales. That Cooper's fathers assert a dominant family role, but at the same time endanger and manipulate their daughters, is an implicit critique of 19th century fatherhood. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Werlock, Abby H.P. (Hamilton College), Courageous Young Women in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; Heroines and Victims. Cooper's Leatherstocking heroines (Elizabeth Temple, Cora Munro, Ellen Wade, Mabel Dunham, Judith Hutter) are spirited, independent, and courageous.
• Zhang, Aiping (California State University at Chico), Can the Twain Meet through Acculturation? The Cultural Hybrids in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Cooper often portrays acculturation of Native Americans (such as The Pioneers' John Mohegan), but concludes that real acculturation between Indian and white is not possible. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• The Effingham Novels: ([The Pioneers], Homeward Bound, Home as Found)
• The Littlepage Novels: (Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, The Redskins)
• Bagby, George F. (Hampden-Sydney College), The Temptations of Pathfinder : Cooper's Radical Critique of Ownership. Cooper's views on property in The Pathfinder at odds with the conservative ideas expressed in the Littlepage novels. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Ellis, David Maldwyn (Hamilton College), The Coopers and the New York State Landholding Systems. Cooper, property, and the "anti-rent wars"; the Littlepage novels (Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, and The Redskins). [1954 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Indian and Frontier Novels
• The Otsego Novels: (The Pioneers, [Homeward Bound], Home as Found, The Deerslayer, Wyandotté)
• D'Ambrosio, Paul S. (New York State Historical Association), Light Upon the Glimmerglass: Cooper and the American Landscape Painters of Otsego Lake. The Otsego of The Pioneers, Home as Found, and The Deerslayer contrasted with that of 19th century landscape painters. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Philbrick, Thomas L. (University of Pittsburgh), Cooper Country in Fiction. Significance of place in Cooper's fiction, especially in the four "Otsego novels." [1978 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Sea Stories
• Iglesias, Luis (University of Southern Mississippi>, The "keen-eyed criticof the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel. The Pilot and The Red Rover as opening a new phase in American literature. [2006 COOPER PANEL]
• Langley, Harold D. (Smithsonian Institution and Catholic University of America), Images of the Sailor in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 359-370. Validity of Cooper's portrayal of sailors in his nautical novels. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Madison, Robert D. (Northwestern University), Getting Under Way with James Fenimore Cooper. Some knowledge of sailing ship terminology will enhance enjoyment of the sea novels. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), Cooper and the Sea: A Bibliographical Note. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 371-372. Survey of Cooper's sea fiction and non-fiction, and of critical commentary about it. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Neeser, Robert W. (Secretary of the Naval Society, New York City), Cooper's Sea Tales. Praise for sea stories, especially The Pilot, The Sea Lions, and The Water-Witch. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Philbrick, Thomas (University of Pittsburgh, emeritus), Cooper and the Literary Discovery of the Sea. Cooper's eleven sea novels created the genre, and, more generally, that of environment interacting with fictional characters. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Philbrick, Thomas (University of Pittsburgh, emeritus), Fact and Fiction: Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Ashore. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 315-321. Unlike the earlier romantic sea stories, this novel is autobiographical, realistic, and very much about property. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• The European Novels: (The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman)
• Denne, Constance Ayers (Baruch College, City University of New York), Cooper's Use of Setting in the European Trilogy. Settings in The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, and The Headsman as artistic keys to Cooper's meaning. [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]
• The Travel Books: (Gleanings in Europe: France, Italy, England, Switzerland, The Rhine {Switzerland, Part II})
• Philbrick, Thomas L. (University of Pittsburgh), Cooper in Europe: The Travel Books. Background to the five travel books. [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]

Individual Works

Fiction

Novels

1820 Precaution

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]

1821 The Spy

• Adams, Charles H. (University of Virginia), "The Guardian of the Law"; George Washington's Role in The Spy. Conflict in Cooper between law and higher principle, especially as seen in The Spy. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Callahan, David (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Who Hides in the Work of James Fenimore Cooper?. The significance of physical concealment in Cooper's works, especially as exemplified in The Spy and The Pathfinder. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Carleton, Chris (Universiti Sain Malaysia, Penang), Justice and Moral Courage in The Spy. Cooper's concern is moral rather than social, in contrast to British novels by Godwin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Dickens. [1995 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Marshall, Ian (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Cooper's "Course of Empire": Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers. In The Crater Cooper borrowed Thomas Cole's mountain image to symbolize God; in his earlier novels mountains symbolize America. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Revolution and the Historical Novel : Cooper's Transforming of European Tradition. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln reject the wavering European hero of Scott, Balzac, and Pushkin, but accept the notion of innate character. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Pickering, James H. (Michigan State University), Enoch Crosby, Secret Agent of the Neutral Ground: His Own Story. Often credited with being Cooper's "model" for Harvey Birch in The Spy, Enoch Crosby in 1832 told his own story (an annotated transcription). [1966 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Textual Editing and the Cooper Editions. Problems of editing, exemplified in The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and especially The Spy. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cooper Revises the First Great American Novel Cooper's careful revisions of The Spy over many years. [1990 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cooper's Revisions for His First Major Novel, The Spy (1821-31). Analysis, with illustrations, of extensive revisions made to The Spy in 1831. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Schramer, James J. (Youngstown State University), James Fenimore Cooper and the Myth of the Citizen Soldier/Sailor. Cooper and the ambiguous myth of the American citizen/soldier/patriot in The Spy and The Pilot. [2002 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Walker, Warren S. (Blackburn College), The Prototype of Harvey Birch. Identifies Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend (both alias Samuel Culper) as models for Harvey Birch in The Spy. [1956 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]

1823 The Pioneers [Leatherstocking Tales] [The Otsego Novels]

• Axelrad, Allan (California State University, Fullerton), Christmas in Cooperstown and Templeton: The Coopers and the Invention of an American Holiday Tradition. How both James and Susan Fenimore Cooper, in The Pioneers and Rural Hours, commented on and contributed to creating American Christmas traditions (keynote address). [2003 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Bower, Anne L. (Ohio State University, Marion), Resisting Women: Feminist Students and Cooper's The Pioneers, with a Few Thoughts Concerning Pedagogical Approaches to The Prairie. Getting students to "listen" to Cooper, and then to appreciate him. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Buchholz, Douglas (University of Pennsylvania), Landownership and Representations of Social Conflict in The Pioneers. A Marxist reading of the novel, with Cooper as a proto-Marxist "socio-historical realist" employing "supreme...socio-ideological acuity." [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1876)]
• Davey, Michael J. (Ohio State University), Plainly Bred in the Woods: Manners as Mode in The Pioneers. Not just autobiographic nostalgia, the novel is also an outsider's critique of genteel society in 19th century America. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Dekker, George G. (Stanford University), Border and Frontier: Tourism in Scott's Guy Mannering and Cooper's The Pioneers. Two approaches to the "tourist" and cultural exoticism. [1997 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Johnston, Paul K. (State University of New York at Plattsburgh), A Puritan in the Wilderness: Natty Bumppo's Language & American Nature Today. The Pioneers secularized the Puritan idea of Biblical "wilderness", and bequeathed it to modern environmentalism. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Kandl, John (New York University), Natty and the Judge: The Pictorial Development of An Ambivalent Theme in The Pioneers. Four scenes from the novel illustrate the irreconcilable conflict between the values of Natty and of Templeton. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Lapp, Peter C. (Queen's University, Kingston), Cooper and his Critics on Character: Distinctiveness, Design and Plausibility. Reliance of Cooper (and his early readers) on character trait psychology, exemplifed especially in The Pioneers, Wyandotté, Satanstoe, and The Prairie, and reactions of contemporary and modern critics. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Lockard, Joseph (University of California at Berkeley), Cooper, Heidegger and the Language of Death: Or, Why is Natty Bumppo Speaking Ebonics? The Pioneers turkey-shooting scene seen as genocidal racism, an example of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger's "inauthentic Da-sein." [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), The Pioneers as History. A detailed outline of The Pioneers with extensive notes and questions focused on the novel's depiction of early Cooperstown and early America. (1994) [WRITINGS]
• Mann. Barbara Alice (University of Toledo), Spirits of Sky, Spirits of Earth: the Spirituality of Chingachgook. Native American dualistic cosmology, rarely noted by Euro-Americans, reflected in Chingachgook's behavior in The Pioneers. [2002 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Marshall, Ian (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Cooper's "Course of Empire": Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers. In The Crater Cooper borrowed Thomas Cole's mountain image to symbolize God; in his earlier novels mountains symbolize America. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Okada, Ryoichi (Niigata University, Japan), Irreconcilable Conflicts in The Pioneers. Chiba Review, No. 10 (1988), pp. 1-18. There can be no reconciliation between Natty Bumppo's "redskin" culture of nature and truth, and Judge Temple's "paleface" culture of artificiality and falsehood. A Japanese view. [1988 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Permaul, Nadesan (University of California, Berkeley). James Fenimore Cooper and the American National Myth. Cooper as designer of an essentially racist American myth, as expresed in The Pioneers. [2006 COOPER PANEL]
• Pickering, James A. (Michigan State University), Cooper's Otsego Heritage: The Sources of The Pioneers. Sources in Cooperstown local history. [1979 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Pikus, Michael J., (Niagara County Community College), Chopping Away at the New World: The Metaphor of the Axe in The Prairie. The axe as a symbol of destruction, in The Pioneers and The Prairie. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Ringe, Donald A. (University of Kentucky), Cooper's Mode of Expression. Cooper's complex descriptive genius, exemplified in Lionel Lincoln, Wyandotté and especially The Pioneers. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR].
• Salamon, Linda B. (Essex Community College), "A Life in the Woods": Failure of Leadership in The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Pioneers, and The Crater. Religion and historical process in Cooper's views of leadership. [1993 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Shour, Nancy C. (Independent Scholar), Heirs to the Wild and Distant Past: Landscape and Historiography in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers. Cooper's landscapes record a past to be preserved for coming generations. [1998 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Sweet, Nancy (Columbia University), "Sweet but Commanding": The Disobedient Daughter in Cooper's The Pioneers. Elizabeth Temple as rebellious but virtuous heroine. [2003 COOPER PANEL]
• Tawil, Ezra F. (Brown University), Romancing History: The Pioneers and the Problem of Slavery. By using the Indian/settler issue, Cooper was able to engage indirectly the taboo subject (in ante-bellum America) of slavery, opening the road to a national debate. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Taylor, Alan (University of California at Davis), The Great Change Begins: Settling the Forest of Central New York The real lives of the first settlers of Otsego County (prototypes of Cooper's The Pioneers); economic, social, and environmental. [1995 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Van Valen, Nelson (Beloit College), James Fenimore Cooper and the Conservation Schism. In The Pioneers Cooper launched both the utilitarian (Judge Temple) and preservationist (Natty Bumppo) wings of the conservation movement. [1981 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Wegener, Signe (University of Georgia), Ramshackle Residences and Severed Arms: Architectural Foibles and Family Values in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers. Fractured family life in a wealthy but dysfunctional home. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]

1823 The Pilot

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Darnell, Donald (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Cooper's Problematic Pilot: "Unrighteous Ambitions" in a Patriotic Cause. Cooper questions the character of John Paul Jones (Mr. Gray), in The Pilot because, despite his heroism, he is not a real gentleman. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• House, Kay S. (San Francisco State University), Cooper as Historian. The Pilot understood John Paul Jones better than Samuel Morison; The Last of the Mohicans depicts the Iroquois better than Colden, Parkman or Morgan. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Iglesias, Luis (University of Southern Mississippi), The "keen-eyed criticof the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel. The Pilot and The Red Rover as opening a new phase in American literature. [2006 COOPER PANEL]
• Morsellino, John (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper and Creole Democracy. Contrary to much modern criticism, Cooper is a proponant of multiculturalism, as shown in The American Democrat, The Pilot, The Prairie, and The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Neeser, Robert W. (Secretary of the Naval Society, New York City), Cooper's Sea Tales. Praise for sea stories, especially The Pilot, The Sea Lions, and The Water-Witch. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Schramer, James J. (Youngstown State University), James Fenimore Cooper and the Myth of the Citizen Soldier/Sailor. Cooper and the ambiguous myth of the American citizen/soldier/patriot in The Spy and The Pilot. [2002 ALA COOPER PANEL]

1825 Lionel Lincoln

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)
• McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Revolution and the Historical Novel : Cooper's Transforming of European Tradition. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln reject the wavering European hero of Scott, Balzac, and Pushkin, but accept the notion of innate character. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Ringe, Donald A. (University of Kentucky), Cooper's Mode of Expression. Cooper's complex descriptive genius, exemplified in Lionel Lincoln, Wyandotté and especially The Pioneers. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR].
• Williams, Kennedy Jr. (University of Kentucky), Cooper's Use of American History. Especially in Lionel Lincoln and The Last of the Mohicans. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR]

1826 The Last of the Mohicans [Leatherstocking Tales]

• Axelrad, Allan M. (California State University, Fullerton), The Last of the Mohicans and the Holocaust. Contrary to much modern criticism, Cooper's novel is essentially anti-racist, reflecting the racist reality of American culture rather than endorsing it. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Bevilacqua, Winifred Farrant (Universita Degli Studi di Torino), Fictional Design and Historical Vision in The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper draws on literary tradition and ends with the victory of "civilization," but also repeatedly undermines this triumphalism by suggesting other options and lost opportunities. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Birns, Nicholas New School University), The Unknown War: The Last of the Mohicans and the Effacement of the Seven Years War in American Historical Myth. Why Cooper did not make the Iroquois the heroes of this novel. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Clarke, Colin A. (George Washington University), Like a Mirror Reflecting Itself: Natty Bumppo, The Virginian, and the Fate of the American Frontier. The Last of the Mohicans prefigures the American "Western novel," but its multiplicity of voices (heteroglossia) distinguishes it from Owen Wister's classic "Western." [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1876)]
• Crawford, James (Curator, Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery), James Fenimore Cooper and the Art of the Erie Canal. New York landscape art influenced by Cooper's Notions of the Americans and The Last of the Mohicans. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Daly, Robert (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper’s Creole: Literature and Ethics in America. (Keynote Address) Multiculturalism and virtue ethics, especially in The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Davey, Michael J. (John Carroll University), Convention and the Limits of Biography for Literary Criticism: Fathers, Daughters, and Sentiment in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Readers should not assume that JFC's fictional characters are based on real people (such as Hannah Cooper in Pioneers or Susan Fenimore Cooper in Mohicans); rather, his use of "sentimentalism" in Mohicans is satiric and undercut by deliberate "Gothicism." [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Dolata, April (Rutgers University), Child and Cooper: Competing Perspectives on Race in Early American Fiction. The Last of the Mohicans as a response to Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Donahue, James (University of Connecticut), Representing Cooper’s Landscape: The N.C. Wyeth Illustrations. The significance of N.C. Wyeth's well-known illustrations of The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Foulon, Jacqueline (University of Paris), Landscape as Referential Paradox in The Last of the Mohicans. The use of landscape to create a fictional past. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Ganter, Granville (City University of New York), Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. Use of "Indian rhetoric" by Cooper, and by Indians themselves. [1997 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Ganter, Granville (City University of New York Graduate Center), Voices of Instruction: Oratory and Discipline in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and The Redskins. Complexities in Cooper's use of "Indian oratory," and in his sources of information, [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Gaul, Theresa Strouth (Texas Christian University), Teaching Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans in an American Literature Survey. Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association (San Antonio, Nov. 2000). Strategies for using Mohicans effectively. [2000 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Goldbæk, Henning (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Cooper and the Forest Gentleman. The Last of the Mohicans as a Bildungsroman (novel of apprenticeship) -- a novel of the creation of man, with nature as an image of the historical mind. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Hancuff, Richard (George Washington University), Without a Cross: Writing the Nation in The Last of the Mohicans. Racial/ethnic/national control over diversity in the novel echoes the creation of the American nation. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Harding, J. Gregory (Northeastern University), "Without distinction of sex, rank, or color" : Cora Munro as Cooper's Ideal and the Moral Center in The Last of the Mohicans. Cora Munro, though a woman, not quite genteel, and of partly African ancestry, occupies the center between "savagery" and "civility," and represents Cooper's ideal for a virtuous American. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Holden, James Austin (State Historian of New York), The Lineage of Colonel George Monro. The real-life career and ancestry of Col. Munro (George Monro) of Fort William Henry, as provided by Scottish lawyer John A. Inglis. [1914 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Holden, James Austin (University of the State of New York), The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper's Historical Inventions, and his Cave. After criticizing and investigating Cooper's "errors" in anachronistic use of the name "Glenn's", renaming Lake George as "the Horican", and giving Col. Munro his daughters Cora and Alice, Mr. Holden (a retired State Historian of New York) explores the history of Glens Falls and its caves (with many early descriptions), the true story of Lt. Col. George Monro of Fort William Henry [continued from a 1914 article], and the bridges spanning the cave-covered island. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• House, Kay S. (San Francisco State University), Cooper as Historian. The Pilot understood John Paul Jones better than Samuel Morison; The Last of the Mohicans depicts the Iroquois better than Colden, Parkman or Morgan. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Kalter, Susan (University of California at San Diego), The Last of the Mohicans as Contemporary Theory: James Fenimore Cooper's Philosophy of Language. Cooper assumes a linguistic hierarchy reflecting mental and political power. [1999 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Kelly, Thomas O., II (Siena College), Whites and Indians and White Indians: The Last of the Mohicans from James Fenimore Cooper to Daniel Day Lewis. Despite its proclaimed "sensitivity," the 1992 film, like its predecessors and the novel, and reflecting American values, remains ambivalent about Native Americans. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Ludski, Zoë (Ryerson Polytechnic University), My Coloured Thoughts: Last of the Mohicans and Perceptions of Mixed Race Peoples. 1999 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium (Tempe, AZ, March 1999). Cora Munro and the problems of mixed-racial background. [1999 OTHER ARTICLES]
• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), The Book that Made Glens Falls Famous: An Introduction to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Informal presentation of origins, content, and levels of meaning of the novel. [INFORMAL TALKS]
• MacDougall, Hugh (James Fenimore Cooper Society), Behind the Adventure Curtain: The Last of the Mohicans as a Novel of Ideas. Background, and serious social and cultural content concerning the American character, Native Americans, and Race. [an expansion of the above Informal Talk by MacDougall] [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Magee, Richard M. (Fordham University), Landscape of Loss, Landscape of Promise. Thomas Cole, history, and the Coopers: JFC's landscapes (The Last of the Mohicans) look back with sorrow; SFC's (Rural Hours) look forward with hope. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Marshall, Ian (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Cooper's "Course of Empire": Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers. In The Crater Cooper borrowed Thomas Cole's mountain image to symbolize God; in his earlier novels mountains symbolize America. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Mazel, David (Louisiana State University), Shooting as Performative Speech in The Last of the Mohicans. The "speech" of Hawkeye's gun likened to the Spanish Requeirimiento placing American Indians under the Spanish crown. [1997 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Michaelsen, Scott (University of Texas, El Paso, The Color Line, Beavers and the Destructuring of White Identity in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Complexities of color between "black" beavers and bears, "white" Europeans, and "red" Indians. [1994 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Morsellino, John (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper and Creole Democracy. Contrary to much modern criticism, Cooper is a proponant of multiculturalism, as shown in The American Democrat, The Pilot,The Prairie, and The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Owen, William (Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto), From Resistance to Autonomy: Daughter-Father Relationships in The Last of the Mohicans and The Pathfinder. Contest between the cultural values of the (military) fathers and the emerging values of the daughters. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Redekop, Ernest H. (University of Western Ontario), Cooper's Emblems of History. Using landscape to portray history in The Last of the Mohicans, Satanstoe, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater (in the last, Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire). [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Sappenfield, James A. (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Editing James Fenimore Cooper. Theory, challenges, and limitations in the textual editing of the Cooper Edition, especially The Last of the Mohicans, The Two Admirals, and The Bravo. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Viñuela Angulo, Urbano (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), Introducción -- El último mohicano. Introduction to a 1997 Spanish edition of The Last of the Mohicans, including list of known Spanish translations. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Walker, Jeffrey (Oklahoma State University), Deconstructing an American Myth: Hollywood and The Last of the Mohicans. The films have "rewritten Cooper's plot, miscast and mislabeled his characters, modernized his dialogue, misunderstood his themes, and misrepresented history." [1995 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Walters, Patrick (University of Delaware), Domesticating Wilderness in The Last of the Mohicans. The dangerous animals of real wilderness are replaced by dangerous Indians, or tamed by comic treatment. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Watts, Edward (Michigan State University), Cooper, Richardson, and the Frontiers of Nationalism. Cooper's nationalism both influenced and was modified in the Canadian nationalism of John Richardson's Indian tales Wacousta (1832), and The Canadian Brothers (1840). [2002 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Wickes, W.K. (Principal, Syracuse High School), Prefatory Notes to The Last of the Mohicans. Critical preface to The Last of the Mohicans, New York: MacMillan, 1899. [1899 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Williams, Kennedy Jr. (University of Kentucky), Cooper's Use of American History. Especially in Lionel Lincoln and The Last of the Mohicans. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Zhang, Aiping (California State University at Chico), The Negotiation of Masculinities: James Fenimore Cooper's Ideology of Manhood in The Last of the Mohicans. By wxploring different kinds of men, white and Indian, Cooper helps refine and define American notions of masculinity and identity. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]

1827 The Prairie [Leatherstocking Tales]

• Bower, Anne L. (Ohio State University, Marion), Resisting Women: Feminist Students and Cooper's The Pioneers, with a Few Thoughts Concerning Pedagogical Approaches to The Prairie. Getting students to "listen" to Cooper, and then to appreciate him. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1876)]
• Engell, John (San Jose State University), Reading and Hearing Natty Bumppo's Last Word in The Prairie. Musings on the possible meanings of the illiterate Natty's dying word: "here"—or is it "hear"? [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Goetzmann, William H. (University of Texas), James Fenimore Cooper : The Prairie. Hennig Cohen, ed., Landmarks of American Writing, New York: Basic Books, 1969, pp. 75-87. Analysis of novel, examining Cooper's sources and arguing that the heart of the novel is the redemption of Ishmael Bush. [1969 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Goldbæk, Henning (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), History and Mythology in The Prairie. Law of nature vs. law of civilization, and the Trapper's (Natty's) dream of reconciling them. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Lapp, Peter C. (Queen's University, Kingston), Cooper and his Critics on Character: Distinctiveness, Design and Plausibility. Reliance of Cooper (and his early readers) on character trait psychology, exemplifed especially in The Pioneers, Wyandotté, Satanstoe, and The Prairie, and reactions of contemporary and modern critics. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), "Their Waste Has Done It All": The Prairie as a Post-Apocalyptic Novel. Natty Bumppo's vision of the prairies as a man-created desert in which human ruins have turned to dust, just as geological science was making such a chronology conceivable, casts new ecological light on this novel. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Morsellino, John (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper and Creole Democracy. Contrary to much modern criticism, Cooper is a proponant of multiculturalism, as shown in The American Democrat, The Pilot, The Prairie, and The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Owen, William (Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto), Natty Changes His Will: Legacies and Beneficiaries in The Deerslayer and The Prairie. Why Natty leaves his possessions to Hard-Heart in The Prairie, but retroactively makes Chingachgook's bride his heir in The Deerslayer. [2000 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Perrin, Anne (University of Houston), Opened Frontiers, Closed Deserts: The Contradictions Between Source and Text in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. While following much of the geographic and ethnographic material in his sources, Cooper contradicts their nationalistic, commercial, and expansionist assumptions. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Pikus, Michael J., (Niagara County Community College), Chopping Away at the New World: The Metaphor of the Axe in The Prairie. The axe as a symbol of destruction, in The Pioneers and The Prairie. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Sawaya, Francesa (Cornell University), Between Revolution and Racism: Colonialism and the American Indian in The Prairie. Cooper's Indians reflect colonialism and the "sentimentalized racism" of his day. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Civilization and its Discontents: Freud Meets Cooper in The Prairie. Considering this novel in the light of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, especially as concerns its treatment of the conflict between personal freedom and entering a social compact. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (Saugerties, New York), Who Owns the Land and Who Cares for It. Metaphors of birds and beasts in The Prairie [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Suzuki, Erin M. (University of California, Los Angeles). Paradise Lost: James Fenimore Cooper and the Pursuit of Empire in the American Pacific. The fatal attraction of Empire in Cooper's The Prairie and, especially, The Crater. [2005 COOPER PANEL]

1828 The Red Rover

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Iglesias, Luis (University of Southern Mississippi>, The "keen-eyed criticof the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel. The Pilot and The Red Rover as opening a new phase in American literature. [2006 COOPER PANEL]
• Wallace, James D. (Boston College), The Black Sailor and The Red Rover. The comparatively favored status of African-American sailors in the early Republic allowed Cooper to explore racial diversity. [1995 SUNY SEMINAR]

1829 The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish

• Baveystock, Freddy (Oxford University), Probable Fictions and Improbable Truths: The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, Notions of the Americans and Cooper's Quarrel with History. Cooper's views of the relationship between fiction and history, and of the nature of truth. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), Wish-ton-Wish: Muck or Melancholy. Sources of The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829) and why Cooper called the whip-poor-will a wish-ton-wish, which is a plains Indian name for prairie dog. [1993 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), Submission and Restoration in The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish. Historical background to the novel. [1999 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]
• Salamon, Linda B. (Essex Community College), "A Life in the Woods": Failure of Leadership in The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Pioneers, and The Crater. Religion and historical process in Cooper's views of leadership. [1993 ALA COOPER PANEL]

1830 The Water-Witch

• Baym, Max I. (Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute) and Percy Matenko (Brooklyn College), The Odyssey of The Water-Witch and a Susan Fenimore Cooper Letter. An 1886 letter to recipient of a manuscript page gives background on writing and publication of The Water-Witch, noting inter alia that Americans in 1830 Dresden were expected to be black. [1970 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Neeser, Robert W. (Secretary of the Naval Society, New York City), Cooper's Sea Tales. Praise for sea stories, especially The Pilot, The Sea Lions, and The Water-Witch. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]

1831 The Bravo [See also under European Novels]

• Axelrad, Allan M. (University of Pennsylvania), History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1978. (x, 231 p.) © 1978 by Allan M. Axelrad, and placed on-line with his permission. A major and provocative study of Cooper's intellectual and religious views, as reflected in a detailed study of his novels and other writings. [Extensive discussion of The Bravo] [WRITINGS]
• Cooper, James Fenimore, A Letter to His Countrymen. Cooper angrily attacks American press reviews of The Bravo and The Heidenmauer; presents theory of limited Constitutional powers and dangers of legislative usurpation; and says he will quit writing. [TEXTS]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Ringe, Donald A. (University of Kentucky), The Bravo : Social Criticism in the Gothic Mode. Brilliant use of Gothic literary style to depict a Republic reduced to totalitarian terror by commercial greed; 18th century Venice in history; America (??) in the future. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Sappenfield, James A. (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Editing James Fenimore Cooper. Theory, challenges, and limitations in the textual editing of the Cooper Edition, especially The Last of the Mohicans, The Two Admirals, and The Bravo. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]

1832 The Heidenmauer [See also under European Novels]

• Cooper, James Fenimore, A Letter to His Countrymen. Cooper angrily attacks American press reviews of The Bravo and The Heidenmauer; presents theory of limited Constitutional powers and dangers of legislative usurpation; and says he will quit writing. [TEXTS]
• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), Examining Man's "Latent Sympathies" in The Heidenmauer. A morality tale about the frailties of men who are neither all good nor all bad. [1995 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Redekop, Ernest H. (University of Western Ontario), Cooper's Emblems of History. Using landscape to portray history in The Last of the Mohicans, Satanstoe, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater (in the last, Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire). [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]

1833 The Headsman [See also under European Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)

1835 The Monikins

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Michaelsen, Scott (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper's Monikins: Contracts, Construction, and Chaos. Cooper's views of Constitutional (and contract) interpretation are at the heart of The Monikins. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (New York University), The Monikins. Radical ideas about property, cushioned by the use of animals (from the Hindu "Ramayana"??) in Cooper's "beast fable," compared with The American Democrat and the Leatherstocking Tales' Natty Bumppo. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]

1838 Homeward Bound [Effingham Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Franklin, Wayne (Northeastern University), Cooper as Passenger. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 351-357. How Cooper's favored status as a Captain's protegé on the Stirling in 1806-07 affected his attitudes towards the sea both in his life and in novels such as Homeward Bound. (1838). [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Bragging and Dodge-ing in America, or Domestic Manners As Found. Cooper's dismay at American manners in the 1830s, as reflected in Homeward Bound and Home as Found. [2005 COOPER PANEL]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “I am condemned to remain Eve Effingham for life”: Home as Bound. For all her liberality, the contentment Eve "finds" at "Home" is one of isolation within Templeton. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Zeitvogel, Chuck (State University of New York College at Brockport), Gender Power and Social Class: The Role of Women in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder, Homeward Bound, Home as Found and The Ways of the Hour. In these works, "Female characters are only allowed to wield power in small, enclosed spaces, or in life or death situations.... Male characters...control all social space and political power." Master of Arts Thesis, Brockport, November 2004. [2004 OTHER ARTICLES]

1838 Home as Found [Effingham Novels] [The Otsego Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Grossman, James (Lawyer and biographer), Cooper and the Responsibility of the Press. American freedom threatened by public opinion and an unscrupulous press; Cooper's libel suits, Home as Found, and The American Democrat. [1954 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Bragging and Dodge-ing in America, or Domestic Manners As Found. Cooper's dismay at American manners in the 1830s, as reflected in Homeward Bound and Home as Found. [2005 COOPER PANEL]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “I am condemned to remain Eve Effingham for life”: Home as Bound. For all her liberality, the contentment Eve "finds" at "Home" is one of isolation within Templeton. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Zeitvogel, Chuck (State University of New York College at Brockport), Gender Power and Social Class: The Role of Women in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder, Homeward Bound, Home as Found and The Ways of the Hour. In these works, "Female characters are only allowed to wield power in small, enclosed spaces, or in life or death situations.... Male characters...control all social space and political power." Master of Arts Thesis, Brockport, November 2004. [2004 OTHER ARTICLES]

1840 The Pathfinder [Leatherstocking Tales]

• Bagby, George F. (Hampden-Sydney College), The Temptations of Pathfinder : Cooper's Radical Critique of Ownership. Cooper's views on property in The Pathfinder at odds with the conservative ideas expressed in the Littlepage novels. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Callahan, David (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Who Hides in the Work of James Fenimore Cooper?. The significance of physical concealment in Cooper's works, especially as exemplified in The Spy and The Pathfinder. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1876)]
• Hall, Cynthia (University of California, Riverside), The Frontier Dilemma of "Girls Gone Wild": Mabel Dunham's Nineteenth-Century Wilderness Education and Sadistic Interpellation. The Pathfinder describes Mabel Dunham as a weak, passive, female demanding protection; the narrative shows her to be anything but. Nevertheless, there is no place for her on a masculine frontier. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Madison, Robert D. (Northwestern University), with Mary K. Madison (Northeastern University), Guides in the Wilderness: An Extract, Glossary, and Chart of Cooper's Fictional and Factual Boat Journeys on Lake Ontario.. Cruise of the Scud in The Pathfinder compared, in a chart, with the route taken by Cooper from Oswego to Niagara in 1809, as recorded in his biography of fellow-officer Melancthon Woolsey. With a glossary of marine terms used in The Pathfinder by Mary K. Madison. [1982 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Owen, William (Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto), From Resistance to Autonomy: Daughter-Father Relationships in The Last of the Mohicans and The Pathfinder. Contest between the cultural values of the (military) fathers and the emerging values of the daughters. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Rust, Richard D., (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Art of The Pathfinder. The novel as a carefully crafted work of art. [1991 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Zeitvogel, Chuck (State University of New York College at Brockport), Gender Power and Social Class: The Role of Women in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder, Homeward Bound, Home as Found and The Ways of the Hour. In these works, "Female characters are only allowed to wield power in small, enclosed spaces, or in life or death situations.... Male characters...control all social space and political power." Master of Arts Thesis, Brockport, November 2004. [2004 OTHER ARTICLES]

1840 Mercedes of Castile

• Harthorn, Stephen P. (Univeristy of Tennessee), Truth and Consequences: James Fenimore Cooper on Scott, Columbus, Bumppo, and Professional Authorship. Cooper's assertions of dishonesty in Walter Scott, and his claims to veracity in Mercedes of Castille and The Deerslayer. [2004 COOPER PANEL]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), Cooper's Columbus. Irving had already written a definitive narrative of Columbus' voyage; in Mercedes of Castile, Cooper tried and failed to tell the story in dialogue. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]

1841 The Deerslayer [Leatherstocking Tales] [The Otsego Novels]

• Ashley, Leonard R.N. (Brooklyn College, City University of New York), The Onomastics of Cooper's Verbal Art in The Deerslayer and Elsewhere. Conscious artistry in Cooper's use of names compensates for his other literary faults. [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Callahan, David (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Containing Manhood in James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer. For all its outdoor adventure, The Deerslayer is in many respects a novel raising issues of interior spaces and of femininity. [2005 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1876)]
• Flynn, Rebecca (University of Houston), Gendered Space and Judith Hunter in James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer. Complexities of gender roles on the frontier. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Harthorn, Stephen P. (Univeristy of Tennessee), Truth and Consequences: James Fenimore Cooper on Scott, Columbus, Bumppo, and Professional Authorship. Cooper's assertions of dishonesty in Walter Scott, and his claims to veracity in Mercedes of Castille and The Deerslayer. [2004 COOPER PANEL]
• Jennings, Anne (San Jose State University), In Defense of Judith: A Re-Reading of Cooper's The Deerslayer as Social History. A more positive image of Judith Hutter than that which Cooper provides. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• MacDougall, Hugh (James Fenimore Cooper Society), Peeling the Onion: Looking for Layers of Meaning in The Deerslayer. Nine layers of meaning, from juvenile to profound, in The Deerslayer. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Morton, Richard (McMaster University), The Deerslayer: Appearance, Reality and Expectation.. Chapter from an uncompleted book. Few things in the novel are what they at first seem, but in introducing Natty Bumppo as one who "is vitally aware of the often confusing interplay between appearances and realities," Cooper provides an "admirable preparation" for the Natty of the other Leatherstocking Tales. [1990 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Morton, Richard (McMaster University), Perception and Reality: The Novelist, the Deerslayer and the Reader Deerslayer deals with surface appearances and hidden realities. [1990 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Norwood, Lisa West (Drake University), Fragments, Ruins and Artifacts of the Past: The Reconstruction of Reading in The Deerslayer. Readers of the novel must call both on their own previous Leatherstocking readings, and on the words, signs, and symbols of the past presented in the book itself. [2003 COOPER PANEL]
• Owen, William (Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto), Natty Changes His Will: Legacies and Beneficiaries in The Deerslayer and The Prairie. Why Natty leaves his possessions to Hard-Heart in The Prairie, but retroactively makes Chingachgook's bride his heir in The Deerslayer. [2000 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Textual Editing and the Cooper Editions. Problems of editing, exemplified in The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and especially The Spy. [1984 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Schachterle, Lance (Editor in Chief, The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper), The Editorial Crux of "undue erring/undeserving" in The Deerslayer. Background and argument for changing the traditional reading of "undeserving" at the end of The Deerslayer to "undue erring" in the Cooper Edition, with response arguing for "undeserving" by Hugh MacDougall. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Schachterle, Lance and Kent Ljungquist (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses: Twain and the Text of The Deerslayer. Joel Myerson, ed., Studies in the American Renaissance 1988, pp. 401-417. Point-by-point exposé of deliberate fabrications in Mark Twain's notorious "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895) [1988 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Shillinglaw, Susan (San Jose State University), Pictorial Space as Identity in The Deerslayer. In seeking their identities, Deerslayer moves successfully outward towards a world of action; Judith unsuccessfully inward towards a world of self-understanding. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Smith, Gail K. (Marquette University), Relics and Repetition in The Deerslayer. Cooper's characters, and the reader, are constantly asked to draw uncertain conclusions from fragmentary evidence (relics), in constant patterns of repetition. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Stauffer, John (Harvard University), Interracial Friendships in The Deerslayer. In creating the Natty Bumppo/Chingachgook and similar interracial relationships, Cooper sought to fulfill the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, in imagination if not in reality, and exerted an enormous influence on American literature. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Tamer, Nanette C. (Villa Julie College), Sibi Imperiosus: Cooper's Horatian Ideal of Self-Governance in The Deerslayer. Comparisons between Cooper's and Horatio's notions of virtue. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Wegener, Signe O. (The University of Georgia), Rewriting the Courtship Novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer. A romance in which the girl doesn't get the boy. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Wolfe, Steven (University of Houston), The Path to a New Environmental Consciousness in The Deerslayer. Deerslayer's inability to protect his beloved Glimmerglass is intended "to change not only our behaviour but our entire means of thinking about the natural environment." [2001 ALA COOPER PANEL]

1842 The Two Admirals

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), Nelson Resartus: Legitimate Order in Cooper's Fleet Novel. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 331-334. Lord Nelson and others as sources for The Two Admirals. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Sappenfield, James A. (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Editing James Fenimore Cooper. Theory, challenges, and limitations in the textual editing of the Cooper Edition, especially The Last of the Mohicans, The Two Admirals, and The Bravo. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]

1842 The Wing-and-Wing

• Bailey, Brigitte (University of New Hampshire), The Panoptic Sublime and the Formation of the American Citizen in Cooper's Wing-and-Wing and Cole's Mount Etna from Taormina, Sicily. Novel and the painting both make use of a panoramic view, reflecting parallel changes in their creators' outlooks in the 1840s. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]

1843 Wyandotté [The Otsego Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Lapp, Peter C. (Queen's University, Kingston), Cooper and his Critics on Character: Distinctiveness, Design and Plausibility. Reliance of Cooper (and his early readers) on character trait psychology, exemplifed especially in The Pioneers, Wyandotté, Satanstoe, and The Prairie, and reactions of contemporary and modern critics. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Pickering, James H. (Michigan State University), New York in the Revolution: Cooper's Wyandotté. Cooper's local historical sources for the novel, depicting the Revolution in central New York as a civil war. [1968 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Ringe, Donald A. (University of Kentucky), Cooper's Mode of Expression. Cooper's complex descriptive genius, exemplified in Lionel Lincoln, Wyandotté and especially The Pioneers. [1978 SUNY SEMINAR].
• Walker, Jeffrey (Oklahoma State University), Fenimore Cooper's Wyandotté and the Cyclic Course of Empire. Influence of Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire series. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]

1844 Afloat and Ashore

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Philbrick, Thomas (University of Pittsburgh, emeritus), Fact and Fiction: Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Ashore. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 315-321. Unlike the earlier romantic sea stories, this novel is autobiographical, realistic, and very much about property. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]

1844 Miles Wallingford

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [ Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Philbrick, Thomas (University of Pittsburgh, emeritus), Fact and Fiction: Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Ashore. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 315-321. Unlike the earlier romantic sea stories, this novel is autobiographical, realistic, and very much about property. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]

1845 Satanstoe [The Littlepage Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Lapp, Peter C. (Queen's University, Kingston), Cooper and his Critics on Character: Distinctiveness, Design and Plausibility. Reliance of Cooper (and his early readers) on character trait psychology, exemplifed especially in The Pioneers, Wyandotté, Satanstoe, and The Prairie, and reactions of contemporary and modern critics. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Redekop, Ernest H. (University of Western Ontario), Cooper's Emblems of History. Using landscape to portray history in The Last of the Mohicans, Satanstoe, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater (in the last, Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire). [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Wallace, James D. (Boston College), Cooper and Slavery. Complexity of Cooper's anti-slavery views, as shown in Satanstoe. [1992 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Wallace, James D. (Boston College), Race and Spiritualism in Satanstoe. A partially cancelled authorial footnote about an African-American psychic medium in Cooperstown illustrates the cultural tensions surrounding the representation of race in the novel. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]

1845 The Chainbearer [The Littlepage Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), "Gib a Nigger Fair Play" : Cooper, Slavery, and the Spirit of the Fair. Cooper expressed essentially racist and pro-slavery views in Notions of the Americans, The Chainbearer, and the posthumously published "New York." [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Mate, Laurence (University of Chicago), How Rhetoric Figures in Cooper's Fiction; Or, Epitaph Upon Epitaph. As exemplified in The Chainbearer and other novels, Cooper uses rhetoric in complex ways that are important in understanding his meaning. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]

1846 The Redskins [The Littlepage Novels]

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Egan, Hugh (Ithaca College) Cooper's Career in the First Person. Cooper's "first person" writings, beginning with the biographical Ned Myers and continuting through The Redskins, in which—contrary to accepted wisdom—Hugh Littlepage's rantings may not reflect the author's views on the rent controversy. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Ganter, Granville (City University of New York Graduate Center), Voices of Instruction: Oratory and Discipline in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and The Redskins. Complexities in Cooper's use of "Indian oratory," and in his sources of information, [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Hecht, Roger (SUNY Oneonta): “Worse than trash”? Politics, Poetry, and the Anti-Rent Press. The popular press background to The Redskins [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Pikus, Michael J. (Niagara County Community College), The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin and James Fenimore Cooper's Continuing Historical Paradox. The 1846 novel expresses Cooper's disgust at the Jacksonian America to which he has returned -- both for its expulsion of Native Americans and its political destruction of a liberal landed gentry. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]

1847 The Crater

• Axelrad, Allan M. (University of Pennsylvania), History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1978. (x, 231 p.) © 1978 by Allan M. Axelrad, and placed on-line with his permission. A major and provocative study of Cooper's intellectual and religious views, as reflected in a detailed study of his novels and other writings. [Extensive discussion of The Crater] [WRITINGS]
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Gentry, April D. (Savannah State University), Created Space: The Crater and the Pacific Frontier. The novel as a cautionary warning about American expansion in the Pacific, with especial reference to Hawaii. [2002 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Hales, John (California State University at Fresno), American Millenialism and The Crater. Despite comparisons with Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire, Cooper's The Crater is theologically and historically optimistic. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Harthorn, Steven P. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), James Fenimore Cooper and The Crater. Cooper fascination with practical farming, exemplified in his letter on potato blight to The Cultivator, is clearly reflected in "The Crater." [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Mani, Lakshmi (Rochester Institute of Technology), James Fenimore Cooper and the Apocalpyse. End-of-the world motifs in the Leatherstocking Tales and The Crater [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Marshall, Ian (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Cooper's "Course of Empire": Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers. In The Crater Cooper borrowed Thomas Cole's mountain image to symbolize God; in his earlier novels mountains symbolize America. [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Norwood, Lisa West (Drake University), Cooper's Pacific: The Crater and Theories of History in the South Seas. The Crater deals with a variety of narratives, of America in the Pacific, of natural history, and of of human experiences of history, which differ from those in Melville's Typee. [2004 COOPER PANEL]
• Redekop, Ernest H. (University of Western Ontario), Cooper's Emblems of History. Using landscape to portray history in The Last of the Mohicans, Satanstoe, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater (in the last, Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire). [1989 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]
• Salamon, Linda B. (Essex Community College), "A Life in the Woods": Failure of Leadership in The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Pioneers, and The Crater. Religion and historical process in Cooper's views of leadership. [1993 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Suzuki, Erin M. (University of California, Los Angeles). Paradise Lost: James Fenimore Cooper and the Pursuit of Empire in the American Pacific. The fatal attraction of Empire in Cooper's The Prairie and, especially, The Crater. [2005 COOPER PANEL]

1848 Jack Tier

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]

1848 The Oak Openings

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introduction [Pages and Pictures (1861)]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]

1849 The Sea Lions

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Introductions [Pages and Pictures (1861) and Household Edition (1881-84)]
• Harthorn, Steven (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), "Few Get as Far South as I Have Been": Stimson in James Fenimore Cooper's The Sea Lions. The annoyingly pious Stimson is essential to Cooper's religious message. [2000 ALA COOPER PANEL]
• Neeser, Robert W. (Secretary of the Naval Society, New York City), Cooper's Sea Tales. Praise for sea stories, especially The Pilot, The Sea Lions, and The Water-Witch. [1917 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Phinit-Akson, Helen [Dr. Helen James] (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Ritual and Aesthetics: The Influence of Europe on the Art of Fenimore Cooper. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1976. 114 p. Placed on-line with permission of the author. Detailed and sympathetic exploration of Cooper's profound and orthodox Christian religious beliefs, centered on faith and redemption, as expounded in eight novels: The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer, The Headsman, The Wing-and-Wing, Mercedes of Castile, The Oak Openings,, and The Sea Lions. [WRITINGS]

1850 The Ways of the Hour

• Zeitvogel, Chuck (State University of New York College at Brockport), Gender Power and Social Class: The Role of Women in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder, Homeward Bound, Home as Found and The Ways of the Hour. In these works, "Female characters are only allowed to wield power in small, enclosed spaces, or in life or death situations.... Male characters...control all social space and political power." Master of Arts Thesis, Brockport, November 2004. [2004 OTHER ARTICLES]

Other Fiction

1823 Tales for Fifteen [two short stories, Imagination and Heart]

• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), First and Last Tales: "Imagination" and "The Lake Gun". Introduction to two little-known Cooper short stories. [1996 ALA COOPER PANEL]

1843 Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief [novelette]

• Harthorn, Steven P. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Cooper's Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief as a Defense of Authoriship. This work marks a change in Cooper's authorial style to the first person, and despite the unusual narrator may in some respects be considered as symbolically autobiographical in fact. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]

1848 Upside Down [play]

1850 The Lake Gun [short story]

• MacDougall, Hugh C. (James Fenimore Cooper Society), First and Last Tales: "Imagination" and "The Lake Gun". Introduction to two little-known Cooper short stories. [1996 ALA COOPER PANEL]

Non-fiction

1828 Notions of the Americans [major study of American culture]

• Baveystock, Freddy (Oxford University), Probable Fictions and Improbable Truths: The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, Notions of the Americans and Cooper's Quarrel with History. Cooper's views of the relationship between fiction and history, and of the nature of truth. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Crawford, James (Curator, Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery), James Fenimore Cooper and the Art of the Erie Canal. New York landscape art influenced by Cooper's Notions of the Americans and The Last of the Mohicans. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), "Gib a Nigger Fair Play" : Cooper, Slavery, and the Spirit of the Fair. Cooper expressed essentially racist and pro-slavery views in Notions of the Americans, The Chainbearer, and the posthumously published "New York." [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cooper's Attitude toward England. Cooper's complex reactions, reflected in Notions of the Americans, Gleanings in Europe: England, and, much more ambiguously, in his fiction. [1982 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Wallace, James D. (Boston College), "The Paradise of Women": The Domestic Sphere in Notions of the Americans. Contradictory notions of separate spheres (for women, Indians, etc.) pervade both Notions and Cooper's other writings. [1986 SUNY SEMINAR]

1831 Letter to General Lafayette [American finances]

1834 A Letter to His Countrymen [complaints of the author]

c.1836 The Eclipse, published posthumously in 1869 [short essay]

• Wallace, James D. (Boston College), Cooper on Corporal Punishment. Flogging, whether at sea or of a slave, is morally corrupting to the flogger. [1997 ALA COOPER PANEL]

1836 Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland, original title Sketches of Switzerland [The Travel Books]

1836 Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine, original title Sketches of Switzerland. Part Second [The Travel Books]

1837 Gleanings in Europe: France, original title Gleanings in Europe [The Travel Books]

1837 Gleanings in Europe: England [The Travel Books]

• Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Cooper's Attitude toward England. Cooper's complex reactions, reflected in Notions of the Americans, Gleanings in Europe: England, and, much more ambiguously, in his fiction. [1982 SUNY SEMINAR]

1838 Gleanings in Europe: Italy [The Travel Books]

• Denne, Constance Ayers (Baruch College, City University of New York), Cooper in Italy. Background, composition, and reception of Gleanings in Europe: Italy. [1980 SUNY SEMINAR]

1838 The American Democrat [political science]

• Grossman, James (Lawyer and biographer), Cooper and the Responsibility of the Press. American freedom threatened by public opinion and an unscrupulous press; Cooper's libel suits, Home as Found, and The American Democrat. [1954 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]
• Morsellino, John (SUNY Buffalo), Cooper and Creole Democracy. Contrary to much modern criticism, Cooper is a proponant of multiculturalism, as shown in The American Democrat, The Pilot, The Prairie, and The Last of the Mohicans. [2005 COOPER SEMINAR]
• Starobin, Christina (New York University), The Monikins. Radical ideas about property, cushioned by the use of animals (from the Hindu "Ramayana"??) in Cooper's "beast fable," compared with The American Democrat and the Leatherstocking Tales' Natty Bumppo. [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Viñuela Angulo, Urbano (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), Dos Figuras Antagónicas en la Obra de James Fenimore Cooper Cooper's opposition of the "gentleman" and the "demagogue," particularly as discussed in The American Democrat. [1983 OTHER ARTICLES]

1838 The Chronicles of Cooperstown [local history]

1839 The History of the Navy of the United States of America [major naval history]

• Egan, Hugh (Ithaca College) Enabling and Disabling the Lake Erie Discussion: James Fenimore Cooper and Alexander Slidell Mackenzie Respond to the Perry/Elliott Controversy. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 343-350. How the famous dispute over the Battle of Lake Erie began as a discussion of facts, and ended up as an increasingly nebulous argument about words. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Madison, Robert D. (Northwestern University), Cooper's Place in American Naval History. Importance of his History of the Navy of the United States of America. [1982 SUNY SEMINAR]

1843 Ned Myers [biography]

• Dudley, William S. (Naval Historical Center), James Fenimore Cooper's Ned Myers: A Life Before the Mast. The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 323-329. Importance to maritime history of Cooper's biography of an ordinary sailor. [1997 OTHER ARTICLES]
• Egan, Hugh (Ithaca College) Cooper's Career in the First Person. Cooper's "first person" writings, beginning with the biographical Ned Myers and continuting through The Redskins, in which—contrary to accepted wisdom—Hugh Littlepage's rantings may not reflect the author's views on the rent controversy. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]

c.1845 The Battle of Plattsburgh Bay, published posthumously in 1869 [lecture]

1844 The Cruise of the Somers [naval article]

c.1845 Old Ironsides, published posthumously in 1853 [naval article]

1846 Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers [biographies]

• Madison, Robert D. (Northwestern University), with Mary K. Madison (Northeastern University), Guides in the Wilderness: An Extract, Glossary, and Chart of Cooper's Fictional and Factual Boat Journeys on Lake Ontario.. Cruise of the Scud in The Pathfinder compared, in a chart, with the route taken by Cooper from Oswego to Niagara in 1809, as recorded in his biography of fellow-officer Melancthon Woolsey. With a glossary of marine terms used in The Pathfinder by Mary K. Madison. [1982 SUNY SEMINAR]

1851 New York [introduction to uncompleted history of New York City, to be called The Towns of Manhattan]

• Madison, Robert D. (United States Naval Academy), "Gib a Nigger Fair Play" : Cooper, Slavery, and the Spirit of the Fair. Cooper expressed essentially racist and pro-slavery views in Notions of the Americans, The Chainbearer, and the posthumously published "New York." [1991 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Pikus, Michael J. (Niagara County Community College), James Fenimore Cooper's New York: Crossing the Border From Fiction to History. In his final work, an introduction to a never-completed history, Cooper reflects both his dispondence with American civilization and his continued realism in accepting new interpretations of it. [2004 OTHER ARTICLES]

1852 American and European Scenery Compared [essay in The Home Book of the Picturesque: or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature (New-York: G.P. Putnam, 1852), pp. 51-69]

• Ravage, Jessie A. (Independent Scholar, Cooperstown), The Home Book of the Picturesque : Father and Daughter. In this 1852 anthology, JFC's academic essay "American and European Scenery Compared" contrasts with SFC's more personal and place-specific "A Dissolving View," which prefigures realistic American regional sketches. [1999 SUNY SEMINAR]

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