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• W2899691645 abstract "Reviewed by: James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years by Wayne Franklin Doreen Alvarez Saar Wayne Franklin. James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2017. 805 p. I don't think that I have enjoyed reviewing a work as much as Wayne Franklin's biography of James Fenimore Cooper. However, not to mislead my readers, I must admit that my enthusiasm stems from certain views I have about literary scholarship that they may not share. I like a study so dense and comprehensive that it will long remain a source for other scholars. James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years is this kind of resource: the fruit of the biographer's access to papers that had not been widely available, it is comprehensively researched with over two hundred pages of lengthy footnotes, many worth reading in themselves (again, if like me, you enjoy that sort of thing). Having made this recommendation, and in the spirit of full disclosure, I need to say that The Later Years is not a conventional biography but an intellectual biography that examines the author, his work, his sources and his era in terms of material and economic conditions (xii); personal details are subordinated to this thrust. When personal details appear—such as the names of people with whom he dealt—they reflect Franklin's interest in building up a mosaic of influences that might potentially affect Cooper's work rather than in theorizing about his personal life. And, admittedly, both volumes seek to convince the reader that, while underappreciated in the history of American literature, his texts set the cultural stage for later American literature. For Franklin, Cooper … remains one of the most original yet most misunderstood figures in the history of American culture. Almost single-handedly in the 1820s, Cooper invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary romance—forms that set a suggestive agenda for subsequent writers, even for Hollywood and television. (xi) Starting in 1826, when Cooper leaves America for Europe, the early part of the biography covers his polemical and political response to his European experience and a defense of the virtues of modern republicanism. [End Page 210] Consequently, Franklin's later political interpretations are solidly grounded in Cooper's inclinations and in the relevant history. For example, one lesser-known trilogy, the Littlepage tales, usually read for their charming portrait of life in the Dutch towns around Albany, ruminates on the Anti-Rent Wars in New York State (1839–1845). The Anti-Rent Wars were farmers' protests of the leasehold in fee, a particular form of landholding that they believed kept them in quasi-feudal subordination. Ultimately, the careful readings also allow a re-evaluation of Cooper's political stance on the American empire, his purported endorsement of an Anglophilic aristocracy, and his position on matters of race. Such attention to the material and political conditions of his life makes this work not only a source about him but also a goldmine of information about many other aspects of American culture. For example, the coverage of his publication process will gladden the hearts of book historians since he is important to the history of American publishing. Starting in 1820 when he published his first novel, Precaution, at age 31 until his death in 1851, he wrote 32 novels, not including polemical and historical works: in producing and shrewdly marketing fully 10 percent of all American novels in the 1820s, most of them best sellers, he made it possible for other aspiring writers to earn a living by their writings (xi). Readers are able to follow the details of these extensive hands-on interactions with his publishers and with the dissemination and payment for his work. Not only is this material essential to the reevaluation of his influence on the culture, it paints a revealing portrait of the world of nineteenth-century publishing. Given his intricate involvement in all aspects of publication, readers will find it remarkable that he ever had the time to write anything. The chapter Libels on Libels adds to the density of Franklin's portrait by detailing Cooper's involvement in litigation (libel mostly) totaling sixteen separate actions..." @default.
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