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	James Fenimore Cooper - Biography and Works
		Cooper was a friend of Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is said to have influenced Herman Melville and earned the praise of Wilkie Collins.
		James Cooper was born on 15 September 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.A, the eleventh child born to Elizabeth née Fenimore (1752-1817) and Congressman, Judge, and founder of Cooperstown, William Cooper (1754-1809).
		James Fenimore Cooper died on 14 September 1851 in Cooperstown, New York, U.S.A. He lies buried in the family plot in the Christ Episcopal Churchyard in Cooperstown.
	www.online-literature.com /cooperj (1446 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
		William Cooper, his father, who was to become one of the most successful founders of new settlements in the colonial republic, was descended from the English Quakers who had come to West Jersey around the year 168- and had prospered.
		James was sent to the local Academy for a few years before being transferred to the care of an Episcopal clergyman in Albany.
		Cooper claimed that he still he had lived up to his artistic vision when he died in 1851, but as most lovers of the adventure story will agree, he came close enough.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_james_cooper.html (1063 words)

	Chapter 2. James Fenimore Cooper. Van Doren, Carl. 1921. The American Novel
		Perhaps by chance, Cooper here hit upon a type of plot at which he excelled, a struggle between contending forces, not badly matched, arranged as a pursuit in which the pursued are, as a rule, favored by author and reader.
		Cooper’s imagination, having worked first upon Revolutionary material and having succeeded with an historical romance which won the loudest applause, was approved on the American stage, and promptly reached European readers, now turned with characteristic energy in another direction, to the matter of the Frontier.
		In each case Cooper projected the old hunter out of the world of remembered Otsego, into the dark forest which was giving up its secrets to the ax and the plow in 1793, or into the mighty prairies which stretched, in Cooper’s mind’s eye, for endless miles behind the forest, another mystery and another refuge.
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	Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
		James was the youngest of seven -- as a child, he enjoyed reading fiction novels and exploring the lake and the surrounding terrain.
		James was the youngest in his class (a mere thirteen) and excelled in the study of Latin.
		Most of the cultural elite considered Cooper, not merely as a successful novelist, but as their great champion in a struggle for domestic self-respect and for international regard; he proved to Europe that America was an artistic force to be reckoned with.
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	James Fenimore Cooper
		James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of Quakers, Judge William Cooper and Elisabeth Fenimore Cooper.
		Cooper was educated in the village school, and in 1800-02 in the household of the rector of St. Peter's.
		In his junior year Cooper was expelled from Yale because of a series of pranks, which included training a donkey to sit in a professor's chair.
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	James Fennimore Cooper
		That is the legacy of James Fenimore Cooper.
		Cooper had spent his youth partly on the family estate on the shores of Otsego Lake, where he roamed the primeval forests and developed a love of nature that would later mark his works.
		Cooper's early frontier experiences influenced his writing, although his greatest mentor was his wife, to whom he often read out loud.
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	JamesFenimoreCooper.page
		James Fenimore Cooper was born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 15,1789.
		James was expelled 3 years later because of a dangerous prank that he played on a fellow classmate.
		Cooper's novels were being used to educate the public about democracy and the publics job on how to keep democracy running.
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	James Fenimore Cooper
		Young Cooper, however, did not linger long at home, and, as the merchant marine offered the surest stepping-stone to a commission in the navy (the school at Annapolis not being yet established), a berth was secured for him on board the ship" Sterling," of Wiscasset, Maine, John Johnston master.
		Cooper served for a while on the "Vesuvius," and in the autumn was ordered to Oswego, New York, with a construction-party, to build a brig for service on Lake Ontario.
		Cooper's own patriotism was staunch, but the associations of his life were such that, to a generation that looked with suspicion upon everything English, his motives often seemed questionable.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesfenimorecooper (4669 words)

	Biography
		James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851) JFC was born James Cooper on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey.
		JFC was the twelfth of thirteen children, of which only four brothers and two sisters also survived childhood.
		JFC was also a keen observer of the political and cultural life of his nation, an accomplished controversialist and a fine naval historian.
	www2.bc.edu /~wallacej/jfc/jfcbio.html (1488 words)

	Cooper, James Fenimore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sent to Yale at 13, Cooper was dismissed for a disciplinary reason in his third year.
		Cooper’s literary career, which covers a period of 30 years and includes more than 50 publications, began in 1820 with the appearance of Precaution.
		Cooper has been criticized for his extravagant plots, his conventional characters, and his stilted dialogue.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/CooperJ.html (544 words)

	Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cooper's gift in the way of invention was not a rich endowment; but such as it was he liked to work it, he was pleased with the effects, and indeed he did some quite sweet things with it.
		Cooper was a sailor -- a naval officer; yet he gravely tells us how a vessel, driving toward a lee shore in a gale, is steered for a particular spot by her skipper because he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her.
		Cooper was certainly not a master in the construction of dialogue.
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	James Fenimore Cooper - Books and Biography
		James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of Quakers, Judge William Cooper and Elisabeth Fenimore Cooper.
		Cooper was educated in the village school, and in 1800-02 in the household of the rector of St. Peter's.
		In his junior year Cooper was expelled from Yale because of a series of pranks, which included training a donkey to sit in a professor's chair.
	www.readprint.com /author-24/James-Fenimore-Cooper (644 words)

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		James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789 to William and Elizabeth Cooper.
		When James was one year old the family moved to the frontier of Lake Otsego, New York, and his father established the settlement of Cooperstown at the head of the Susquehanna River.
		Cooper attended a private prep school in Albany, New York, and was then admitted to Yale in 1803.
	www.lycos.com /info/cooper-james-fenimore.html (612 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureJames Fenimore Cooper - Author Page
		James Fenimore Cooper was the first American novelist to gain international stature and the first to earn his living from royalties.
		By 1820, James Cooper (he added the Fenimore later) was the family’s only surviving son and thus the primary bearer of its rapidly accumulating indebtedness.
		Although Cooper may not have become a writer in order to gain solvency (family legend has it that he wrote his first novel in response to a dare from his wife), his literary career, once undertaken, was driven by both creative passion and financial necessity.
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	James Fenimore Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James Cooper, the 12th of 13 children (6 surviving) of William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper, born in Burlington NJ ("Fenimore" was only added in 1826).
		William Cooper, a Quaker, was a prominent Federalist politician in New York, a substantial landowner, congressman, and judge.
		JFC returns to U.S. and finds himself increasingly out of sorts with Jacksonian America, which he continues to criticize and attack in his writings.
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	James Fenimore Cooper
		Cooper was born at Burlington, New Jersey, as the son of Quakers, Judge William Cooper and Elisabeth Fenimore Cooper.
		Scott inspired Cooper to draw stereotypes of light and dark, good and evil, and dichotomize the female into the fair and pure and the dark and tainted.
		Cooper defended in the work the landlords' rights - the tenants of the New York had refused to pay rent and the author saw in the controversy a crisis in American democracy.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.73 (877 words)

	James Fenimore Cooper Biography and Summary
		Novelist and social critic James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was the first major American writer to deal imaginatively with American life, notably in his five "Leather-Stocking Tales." He was also a critic of the political, social, and religious problems...
		When James Fenimore Cooper decided to write The Spy (1821), a narrative of manners set in the America of the Revolutionary War, he was certainly conscious of the fact that nothing of the kind already existed.
		James Fenimore Cooper(September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Fenimore_Cooper (538 words)

	James Fenimore Cooper
		Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1789, the 11th of 12 children.
		When James was one year old, Cooper the elder moved his family into the wilderness surrounding Lake Otsego, New York, to eventually establish the hamlet of Cooperstown.
		Cooper's second try, The Spy (1821), a fascinating tale of the not-so-long-ago War for Independence, was based on the adventures of an agent during the British occupation of New York.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3852.html (964 words)

	Volume B: American Literature, 1820-1865 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cooper was raised near Otsego Lake in central New York, where his father owned a large property known as Cooperstown -- at the age of twenty he inherited his father's fortune and married Susan De Lancy.
		When Cooper is referred to (or written off) as "the American Scott," the phrase usually refers to Cooper's romantic and epic adventure stories about Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and Chingachgook, his Mohegan friend and companion.
		Though Cooper can be grouped with the American Romantics, The Pioneers has much to recommend it as an early work of realism, a sharp-eyed and even prophetic account of the small, important details of an emerging culture, and of the cultures which were rapidly disappearing from that landscape.
	www.wwnorton.com /naal/vol_B/explorations/cooper.htm (617 words)

	PBS - Mark Twain: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
		Cooper’s gift in the way of invention was not a rich endowment; but such as it was he liked to work it, he was pleased with the effects, and indeed he did some quite sweet things with it.
		Cooper was a sailor–a naval officer; yet he gravely tells us how a vessel, driving towards a lee shore in a gale, is steered for a particular spot by her skipper because he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her.
		For several years Cooper was daily in the society of artillery, and he ought to have noticed that when a cannon-ball strikes the ground it either buries itself or skips a hundred feet or so; skips again a hundred feet or so–and so on, till finally it gets tired and rolls.
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	Classic Authors: James Fenimore Cooper
		James Cooper (the Fenimore was legally added in 1826) was born on September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey.
		When James was only one year old, his father moved his family to the frontier of Lake Otsego, where he created a settlement he called Cooperstown.
		James disliked the discipline of the military; in 1810 he took a furlough and never returned to active duty.
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	James Fenimore Cooper
		In 1833 Cooper returned to America, and immediately published A Letter to my Countrymen, in which he gave his own version of the controversy he had been engaged in, and passed some sharp censure on his compatriots for their share in it.
		Cooper was certainly one of the most popular authors that have ever written.
		Cooper is the subject of Mark Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (1895).
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	James Fenimore Cooper - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James Fenimore Cooper versus the cult of domesticity; progressive themes of femininity and family in the novels.(AMERICAN LITERATURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
		Cross-cultural hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
		Cooper's cunning and Heyward as cunning-man in 'The Last of the Mohicans.'(James Fenimore Cooper's novel)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-CooperJ.html (927 words)

	Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
		Cooper's gift in the way of invention was not a rich endowment; but such as it was he liked to work it, he was pleased with the effects, and indeed he did some quite sweet things with it.
		Cooper was a sailor -- a naval officer; yet he gravely tells us how a vessel, driving toward a lee shore in a gale, is steered for a particular spot by her skipper because he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her.
		Cooper made the exit of that stream fifty feet wide, in the first place, for no particular reason; in the second place, he narrowed it to less than twenty to accommodate some Indians.
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	COOPER, James Fenimore
		James Fenimore Cooper is often regarded as the first great writer of American fiction.
		Cooper was the second to last child in a family of twelve children.
		Cooper's family responsibilities had been growing steadily over the years as he had taken in the widows and children of his older brothers.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ...
		James Fenimore Cooper, like Irving, evoked a sense of the past and gave it a local habitation and a name.
		This is Cooper's basic tragic vision of the ironic destruction of the wilderness, the new Eden that had attracted the colonists in the first place.
		Cooper's novels reveal a deep tension between the lone individual and society, nature and culture, spirituality and organized religion.
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	All American: James Fenimore Cooper
		James Fenimore Cooper occupies the strange position of being among the first and the last of America’s great novelists.
		In any case, Cooper is an important figure in American literature, known particularly for his creation of the idealized hero Natty Bumppo and for his treatment of the American frontier in The Leather-Stocking Tales, a series of five novels that include The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), and The Deerslayer (1841).
		It is clear that crotchety as Cooper’s thinking sometimes was, he exemplified a dilemma, and explored some of the aesthetic uses to which it might be put, that was not peculiar to him but was at the heart of American culture.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit/cooper (2306 words)

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