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CALLS FOR PAPERS

23rd Annual Conference
American Literature Association

May 24-27, 2012
San Francisco, California

The James Fenimore Cooper Society will host two open topic panels at the 23rd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held in San Francisco, California May 24-27, 2012. The Society invites presentations on any topic related to Cooper’s life and works, his relationships with his publishers, contemporary authors, literary, historical, and cultural movements, his literary legacy, and other theoretical and/or pedagogical issues.

Papers should be 20 minutes (6-8 pages) in length. Brief discussion will follow the presentations. Presenters need not be members of the James Fenimore Cooper Society, though we certainly hope they will choose to join.

Papers presented at the conference will, with their authors' permission, be published in the James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers series and made available online at the Cooper Society website. Papers may be mildly revised for publication.

Please submit by e-mail to Rochelle Zuck by January 6, 2012 a 250-500 word abstract, a brief cv (2-3 pages), and an indication of whether or not the paper may be published in the Miscellaneous Papers. Please also indicate any audio-visual requirements. All proposals should be both pasted into the text of the email and included as attachments (word files or pdfs preferred).

UPCOMING EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

Leather-Stocking Redux; Or, Old Tales, New Essays, edited by Jeffrey Walker.New York: AMS Press, 2011.
• Jeffrey Walker -- Leather-Stocking Redux: An Introduction Anew, and Anon;
  William Merrill Decker -- The Africanist Presence in The Pioneers;
  Allan M. Axelrad -- The Last of the Mohicans, Race Mixing, and America's Destiny;
  Barbara Alice Mann -- Sex and the Single Mixed-Blood;
  Robert Daly -- Mohicans, Virtue Ethics, Literature, and Life;
  Signe O. Wegener -- Marmaduke Temple: James Fenimore Cooper's Portrait of an American Man of Leisure;
  Lance Schachterle -- On The Prairie;
  John McWilliams -- Inscribing the Prairie Sunset: Cooper, Cather, and Momaday;
  Matthew Wynn Sivils -- "It's Ghastly Visage": Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales and the Grotesque;
  Stephen P. Harthorn -- The Pathfinder and Cooper's Return to Popular Literature;
  Wayne Franklin -- "One More Scene": The Marketing Context of Cooper's "Sixth" Leather-Stocking Tale
• Anna Krauthammer, The Representation of the Savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
• Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey Walker. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
• Kay Seymour House -- Is Cooper Obsolete?;
  John McWilliams, -- The Pioneers: Stumps in Clearing the Classroom Forest;
  Allan M. Axelrad -- "The Shock of Recognition: Twain and Lawrence Read Cooper;
  Robert Daly -- From World To Word and Back: Coopers Now and Then;
  William P. Kelly -- Republican Fictions: Cooper and the Revolution;
  James A. Sappenfield -- Cooper as Experimental Novelist;
  Wayne Franklin -- James Fenimore Cooper: The Biographical Matrix;
  Lance Schachterle -- Cooper's Works in Print;
  Matthew Wynn Sivils -- "Yours, Truly, THE AUTHOR": Cooper's Leather-Stocking Prefaces;
  William Merrill Decker -- "Surely Cora Was Not Forgotten": Remembering Africa in the Leather-Stocking Tales;
  Barbara Alice Mann -- Fancy Girls: The Creole and the Quadroon in Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales;
  David Callahan -- Cooper's Androgynous Heroes;
  Leland S. Person -- Cooper's Otsego: Land to Rove for a Man's Life;
  Signe O. Wegener -- Reversing the Courtship Novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer;
  David Cody -- James Fenimore Cooper and the Imperial Fantasy;
  Gladys S. Lewis -- Fenimore Cooper's Cinematic Legacy: Indiana Jones, the Cartwrights, and Spock's Ears;
  Judith Richardson -- The "Littlepages" of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Local History in the Lower Hudson Valley;
  Nalle Valtiala -- Cooper's European Landscapes;
  Stephen Carl Arch -- Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offense: The "Homely" Truth of Cooper's satire in Home as Found
• Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. 708 p. boards. Yale University Press, 2007.
• A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper, edited and with an introduction by Leland S. Persons. 259 p., paper. Oxford University Press, 2007
• Wayne Franklin -- James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851: A Brief Biography;
  John P. McWilliams -- "More than a Woman's Enterprise": Cooper's Revolutionary Heroines and the source of Liberty:
  J. Gerald Kennedy -- Cooper's Europe and His Quarrel with America;
  Dana D. Nelson -- Cooper's Leatherstocking Conversations: Identity, Friendship, and Democracy in the New Nation;
  Barbara Alice Mann -- Race Traitor: Cooper, His Critics, and Nineteenth-Century Literary Politics;
  Illustrated Chronology;
  Jeffrey Walker -- Bibliographical Essay: Cooper and America.
• Craig White, Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper. 209 p., boards. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• Signe O. Wegener, James Fenimore Cooper versus the Cult of Domesticity: Progressive Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels. 191 p., paper. McFarland & Co., 2005.
• James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore; or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, edited, with an Historical Introduction, by Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick, 2 vols., 583, 491 p., boards. New York: AMS Press, 2004.
• Russell T. Newman, The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper. 107 p., boards. New York: Lexington Books, 2003.
• Jean Soublin, "Bas de Cuir," in his Le Second Regard: Voyageurs et Barbares en Litterature. Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 2001.

PERIODICALS

• Literature in the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries. Matthew Wynn Sivils and Jeffrey Walker, eds. New York: AMS Press.
  Note: Only Articles Pertaining to James Fenimore Cooper or Susan Fenimore Cooper listed here.
• Volume I (2009)
• Rochelle Raineri Zuck -- Cultivation, Commerce, and Cupidity: Late-Jacksonian Virtue in James Fenimore Cooper's The Crater;
  Lance Schachterle -- The Themes of Land and Leadership in "The Littlepage Manuscripts";
  Allan M. Axelrad -- Cooper's Literary Landscape Art and American Landscape Painting: From Mountain Gothic to Forest Gothic and Luminism;
  Leland S. Person -- The Ways of the Hour: Cooper's Scarlet Letter;
  Barbara Alice Mann -- Aunt Jane and Father Fenimore: The Influence of Jane Austen on James Fenimore Cooper;
  John C. Havard -- The Ideological Significance of Dualistic Native American Characterization in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Juan Leòn Mera's Cumandá
• Volume 2 (2010)
• Rebecca Lush -- "Louisianian Lady": Racial Ambiguity, Gender, and National Identity in Cooper's The Prairie;
  Stephen Carl Arch -- Cooper's Turn: Satire and the Age of Jackson.
• Volume 3 (2011)
• Wayne Franklin -- Writing America from Abroad: Cooper's Recollected Sources in The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish;
  Luis A. Iglesias -- Pirates, Patriots, and the Mexican War: Jack Tier and Cooper's Argument with the Nation;
  Proceedings of the Association for Documentary Editing/Allied Session on the Cooper Edition;
  
  Allan M. Axelrad -- Introduction: 2008 MLA Cooper Edition Session;
  James A. Sappenfield -- A Conservative Reconsiders the Rationale of Copy-Text;
  Karen Lentz Madison and R. D. Madison -- The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish: Noting Cooper's Narragansett Novel;
  Stephen Carl Arch -- All Afloat: Cooper's Composition of Homeward Bound

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