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Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works
Forword by Lawrence Buell
Edited and with an Introduction by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson
(Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001) ISBN 0-8203-2326-8 Hardback, 286 pages. $45.00
Introduction
I. The Familial Context
Wayne Franklin, Under the Table: Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Construction of Her Father's Reputation (p. 3)
Allan Axelarad, "The Lumley Autograph " and the Great Literary Lion: Authenticity and Commodification in Nineteenth-Century Autograph Collecting (p. 22)
Lisa West Norwood, Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Home Book of the Revolution": Mount Vernon: A Letter to the Children of America, Patriotism, and Sentiment (p. 39)
Michael P. Branch, Five Generations of Literary Coopers: Intergenerational Valuations of the American Frontier (p. 69)
II. Landscape and the Rural Ideal
Lucy Maddox, Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rustic Primer (p. 83)
Richard M. Magee, "An Artist, or a Merchant's Clerk": Susan Fenimore Cooper's Elinor Wyllys and Landscape (p. 96)
Duncan Faherty, "The Borderers of Civilization": Susan Cooper's View of American Development (p. 109)
III. Theorizing Rural Hours: Audience, Time, and Aesthetics
Michael Davey, Reading Susan Reading Ruth: Audience, Response, and the Historical Hermeneutics of Rural Hours (p. 129)
Jennifer Dawes, A Farther Progress: Reconciling Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooper's
Rural Hours (p. 154)
Tina Gianquitto, The Noble Designs of Nature: God, Science, and the Picturesque in Susan Cooper's Rural Hours p. 169
IV. Susan Fenimore Cooper among Her Contemporaries
Erika M. Kreger, Rustic Matters: Placing the Rural Community Narratives of Alice Cary, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Caroline Kirkland in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Women's Sketchwriting Tradition (p. 193)
Bob Hardy, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Beecher, and the Theology of Homemaking (p. 215)
Lisa Stefaniak, Botanical Gleanings: Susan Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Parr Traill, and the Representation of Flora (p. 232)
Jessie Ravage, In Response to the Women af Seneca Falls: Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Rightful Place of Woman in America (p. 249)
Appendix 1. Susan Fenimore Cooper's Published Works in Chronological Order (p. 267)
Appendix 2. Susan Fenimore Cooper's Letters and Manuscripts (p. 271)