Notions of the Americans

Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor

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ID19925108
AuthorsJames Fenimore Cooper (corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-07-20
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueNotions of the Americans (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511703126
OpenAlexW1527197937
ISBN9780511703126
Open LibraryOL28996655M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans

Art · Art history · Bachelor · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nobility · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Australian History and Society · Classics · History · Law · Travel Writing and Literature · 1775-1865 · 1783-1848 · 1783-1865 · description and travel · Descriptions et voyages · Early works to 1800 · États-Unis · Manners and customs · Moeurs et coutumes · new england · New York (État) · New York (State) · Nouvelle-Angleterre · Social life and customs · Travel · united states

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