Cooper Today

The two hundredth anniversary of James Fenimore Cooper's birth is an appropriate time for us to consider the current state of scholarship on his life and works. How far have we come? Where are we now? And what are the prospects for the future? Some of the conclusions are obvious. Much has been accomplished. The publication between 1960 and 1968 of the six- volume Letters and Journals put the study of Cooper's life on a firmer basis than it had ever been before, and the appearance of each volume in the SUNY edition of Cooper's writings adds further to the foundation by providing the scholar with accurate texts of his books, both fiction and non- fiction; with textual commentaries that reveal much about both his revisions and the history of the texts; and with historical introductions that establish the genesis, composition, publication, and contemporary reception of each of the books. We lack only a modern biography and additional volumes of the SUNY edition to place the study of Cooper on the most solid of historical grounds. We can only hope that this work, so well begun by the late James Franklin Beard, can be completed in the not too distant future

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• American Classics Reconsidered

  Benjamin T Spencer, Harold C Gardiner•American Literature•1959

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• The Cycle of American Literature

  Norman Holmes Pearson, Robert E Spiller•American Literature•1957

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• Wish Fulfillment in the Wilderness

  Open Access•Allan M Axelrad•American Quarterly•1987

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