
Gleanings in Europe
England
James Fenimore Cooper(Author)
State University of New York Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 1981
Book
Hardback
375 pages
978-0-87395-367-2 (ISBN)
Description
A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the gangrene of the author's mind in its most foul and diseased state."
Such were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism.
Cooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.
Such were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism.
Cooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87395-367-2 (9780873953672)
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Introduction
Content
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Historical Introduction
Preface
Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
Explanatory Notes
Appendix A. Bentley's Analytical Table of Contents
Appendix B. Guide to Parallel Passages in Cooper's Journals and the Cooper Edition
Textual Commentary
Textual Notes
Emendations
Word-Division
Index
Illustrations
Historical Introduction
Preface
Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
Explanatory Notes
Appendix A. Bentley's Analytical Table of Contents
Appendix B. Guide to Parallel Passages in Cooper's Journals and the Cooper Edition
Textual Commentary
Textual Notes
Emendations
Word-Division
Index