James Fenimore Cooper
1789 - 1851
Cooper's Writings

    Some Reviewed by Patrick Killough
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 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY About James Fenimore Cooper
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Selected Works by James Fenimore Cooper
(1789 - 1851)

NOTE: See the James Fenimore Cooper Society web site at
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/bibliography/works.html
for a chronological listing (by category) of Cooper's writings
with plot sketches and republication information.

THE  FIVE  L E A T H E R S T O C K I N G  NOVELS
1823  THE PIONEERS, or THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA:  A DESCRIPTIVE TALE

1826  THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS:  A NARRATIVE OF 1757

1827  THE PRAIRIE: A TALE

1840  THE PATHFINDER or  THE INLAND SEA

1841  THE DEERSLAYER, or THE FIRST WAR-PATH



O T H E R   NOVELS AND FICTION  BY  COOPER
1820. PRECAUTION. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. New York. P. F. Collier and Sons. undated. 464 pp.
1825.  LIONEL LINCOLN, or THE LEAGUER OF BOSTON. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Undated.  432 pp.

1828 THE RED ROVER.

1829. THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH: A TALE. Amsterdam. Fredonia Books.2002  Facsimile of 1892 two-column edition. 173 pp. paper.  ISBN: 1- 58963 - 736 - 4.  NOTE: always known in the UK as THE BORDERERS.

1830 THE WATER WITCH; or, THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS.

1831 THE BRAVO.

1832.  THE HEIDENMAUER: THE BENEDICTINES, A LEGEND OF THE RHINE.

1833 THE HEADSMAN; OR, THE ABBAYE DES VIGNERONS.

1835 THE MONIKINS.

1838 HOMEWARD BOUND; OR, THE CHASE: A TALE OF THE SEA.

1838 HOME AS FOUND.

1840 MERCEDES OF CASTILE; OR, THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY

1842 THE TWO ADMIRALS: A TALE OF THE SEA.

1842 THE WING-AND-WING; OR, LE FEU-FOLLET.

 1843 WYANDOTTE; OR, THE HUTTED KNOLL.

1843 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET HANDKERCHIEF.

1844 AFLOAT AND ASHORE; or, THE ADVENTURES OF MILES WALLINGFORD.
 
1844 MILES WALLINGFORD. (continuation of Afloat and Ashore).


1845. SATANSTOE: or, THE LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS -- A TALE OF THE COLONY. Charleston, South Carolina. Bibliobazaar. 2006. paper. 449 pp. ISBN:
1-4264-3275-5.

1845 THE CHAINBEARER; or, THE LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS.

1846 THE REDSKIKS; or, INDIAN AND INJIN.

1847 THE CRATER; or, VULCAN'S PEAK.

1848 JACK TIER; or, THE FLORIDA REEF.


1848. THE OAK-OPENINGS; or, THE BEE-HUNTER.

1849 THE SEA LIONS; or, THE LOST SEALERS.

1850.  THE WAYS OF THE HOUR.

1850 UPSIDE DOWN; or, PHILOSOPHY IN PETTICOATS.

1850 THE LAKE GUN. (short story).
NON- FICTION

BIOGRAPHY
BOOKS ABOUT COOPER'S TRAVELS: EUROPE

1828 Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor.

1836 Sketches of Switzerland. Switzerland in 1828 [Cooper edition title: Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland]
    <>1836 Sketches of Switzerland, Part Second. France, the Rhineland, and Switzerland in 1832 [Cooper edition title: Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine].<>

    1837 Gleanings in Europe: France.<>

    1837 Gleanings in Europe: England<>

    1838 Gleanings in Europe: Italy..

SELECTED BOOKS OTHER THAN TRAVEL
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    <>1838 The American Democrat: or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America.
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    1838 The Chronicles of Cooperstown.

    <>1839 The History of the Navy of the United States of America.




    <>1846 Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers. Biographic sketches of American naval heroes.
 



MATERIALS  (INCLUDING ON-LINE)  BEARING  OR BASED ON 
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
-- Robert CLARK (editor). JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS. New York. Barnes & Noble Books. 1985. 208 pp. ISBN: 0389205923.

-- George DEKKER.  JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: THE AMERICAN SCOTT. New York. Barnes and Noble, Inc. 1967. xvii. 265 pp.

-- Wayne FRANKLIN. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: THE EARLY YEARS.  New Haven. Yale University Press. 2007. xxxiv. 708 pp.  ISBN 978-0-300-10805-7

-- James GROSSMAN. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. Toronto. 1949. x. 286 pp.

-- William P. KELLY.  PLOTTING AMERICA'S PAST: FENIMORE COOPER AND THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES. Carbondale and Edwardsville. Southern Illinois University Press. 1983. x. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8093-1144-5.

-- T. Patrick KILLOUGH. "AMERICAN PATRIOTISM and JAMES FENIMORE COOPER." Remarks to Black Mountain, North Carolina Rotary Club    Tuesday February 26, 2008.

-- Richard SLOTKIN. REGENERATION THROUGH VIOLENCE: THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1600 - 1860. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 1973. ISBN 97800-8061-3229-7 (paper). ix. 670.

-- D. H. LAWRENCE. STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE.  1923, 1951. New York. Viking. 1975. paper. viii. 177 pp.
       -- Ch. IV. "Fenimore Cooper's White Novels."
       -- Ch. V. "Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Novels."

-- John MCWILLIAMS.  THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS: CIVIL SAVAGERY AND SAVAGE CIVILTY. New York. Twayne Publishers. Twayne's Masterwork Series No. 143. 1995. xvi. 104. ISBN: 0-8057-4457-6 (pbk.).

-- Thomas MORTON of "Merrymount." NEW ENGLISH CANAAN: TEXT AND NOTES. edited by Jack DEMPSEY. Stoneham, Mass. 2000. xlii. 253 pp. followed by illustrations. paper. ISBN 1-58218--206-X.

-- Francis PARKMAN. COUNT FRONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV.  Toronto. George N. Morang & Co., Ltd. 1905. 463 pp.

-- Francis PARKMAN. MONTCALM AND WOLFE. In two volumes. Vol. I: Toronto. George N. Morang & Co., Ltd. 1901. 514 pp.

-- Leland S. PERSON (editor). A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. New York. Oxford University Press. 2007. vi. 249. paper.
ISBN 978-0-19-517313-0 (pbk)

-- Warren S. WALKER. LEATHERSTOCKING AND THE CRITICS. Chicago. Scott, Foreman and Company. 1965. paper. 149 pp.

---- PLOTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE FICTION OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. Hamden, CT. Archon Books. 1978.

-- James D. WALLACE. New York. Columbia University Press. 1986. xi. 230 pp. ISBN: 0231061765.
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     Publications of the "Writings of James Fenimore Cooper"
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