Index of Other Writers, Artists, etc.

Updated August 2006

This index includes articles and papers in which James and/or Susan Fenimore Cooper is discussed in relation to other writers, artists, or others; they are listed alphabetically.

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Papers concerning James Fenimore Cooper and/or Susan Fenimore Cooper and: Honoré de Balzac | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Lydia Maria Child | Thomas Cole | Charles Dickens | Sigmund Freud | William Godwin | Horatio Greenough | Martin Heidegger | Horace | Helen Hunt Jackson | D.H. Lawrence | Samuel Finlay Morse | Edgar Allan Poe | Alexander Pushkin | John Richardson | Sir Walter Scott | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Henry Thoreau |Catharine Parr Traill | Mark Twain | N.C. Wyeth

Balzac, Honoré de [French novelist, 1799-1850]

• 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]

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (Baron Lytton) [British novelist, 1803-1873]

• 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]

Child, Lydia Maria [American novelist, 1802-1880]

• Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), 'Wizards of the West'? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the 'Wizard of the North'. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further. [1997 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]

Cole, Thomas [American painter, 1801-1848]

• 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. [WRITINGS]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]

Dickens, Charles [British novelist, 1812-1870]

• 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]

Freud, Sigmund [Austrian psychologist, 1856-1939]

• 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]

Godwin, William [British philospher and novelist, 1756-1836]

• 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]

Greenough, Horatio [American sculptor, 1805-1852]

• (1870) Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Greenough's Chanting Cherubs. Letter to the Editor relating James Fenimore Cooper's commissioning of Horatio Greenough's sculpture The Chanting Cherubs. [SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER]
• (1957) Wright, Nathalia (University of Tennessee), The Chanting Cherubs: Horatio Greenough's Marble Group for James Fenimore Cooper. Genesis, reception, significance, and disappearance of statue commissioned by Cooper. [1957 NY HISTORY ARTICLES]

Heidegger, Martin [German philosopher, 1889-1976]

• 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]

Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] [Roman poet and philosopher, 65-8 B.C.]

• 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]

Jackson, Helen Hunt [American writer, 1830-1885]

• 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]

Lawrence, D.H. [British writer, 1885-1930]

• Suzuki, Taisuke (Asahi University, Japan), The Background to Cooper's Literary Works. Musings on D. H. Lawrence's writings about Cooper. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]

Melville, Herman [American writer, 1819-1891]

• 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]

Morse, Samuel Finlay [American painter and inventor, 1791-1872]

• Crawford, James (Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery), James Fenimore Cooper and his Family in Samuel Finlay Morse's Painting: The Gallery of the Louvre. Analysis of the Morse painting, and significance of its inclusion of the Cooper family. [2003 COOPER SEMINAR]

Poe, Edgar Allan [American writer, 1809-1849]

• Goldbaek, Henning (Institute of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen), Poe and Cooper: A comparison, between an American Democrat and a Southern Gentleman. Despite major differences in outlook, parallels can be found in the two writers. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]

Pushkin, Alexander [Russian poet and novelist, 1799-1837]

• 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]

Richardson, John [Canadian novelist, 1796-1852]

• 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]

Scott, Sir Walter [British novelist, 1771-1832]

• Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), 'Wizards of the West'? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the 'Wizard of the North'. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further. [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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria [American novelist, 1789-1867]

• Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), 'Wizards of the West'? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the 'Wizard of the North'. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further. [1997 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Fanuzzi, Robert (St. Johns University), Empire of Tears. Cooper (and Catharine Maria Sedgwick) used a feminized historical novel to transform the Indian captivity tale into the sentimental novel. [1993 SUNY SEMINAR]
• Kalayjian, Patricia Larson (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?. Relations between Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. [1993 ALA COOPER PANEL]

Thoreau, Henry [American writer, 1817-1862]

• Bagby, George F. (Hampden-Sydney College), Kindred Spirits: Cooper and Thoreau. Similarities in ethical, political, economic, and environmental spheres. [1994 ALA COOPER PANEL]

Traill, Catharine Parr [Canadian nature writer, 1802-1899]

• Dyer, Klay (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), Turning Over a New Leaf: The Literary Ecologies of Susan Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Parr Traill. A Canadian and and an American naturalist/writer, working separately, created a new literary genre. [2001 SUNY SEMINAR]

Trollope, Fanny [British Traveler, 1780-1863]

• 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]

Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) [American writer, 1835-1910]

• 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]
• Person, Leland S., Jr. (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne) The Leatherstocking Tradition in American Fiction: or, The Sources of Tom Sawyer: A Descriptive Essay. The source of Tom Sawyer, in characters, theme, and many plot details is -- Cooper's The Pioneers ! [1986 SUNY 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]

Wyeth, N[ewell] C[onvers] [American artist and illustrator, 1882-1945]

• 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]

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