Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor

by James Fenimore Cooper

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108003858
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/20/2009
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American novelist whose works include The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer, collectively known as The Leatherstocking Tales.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)

Table of Contents

1. To the Count Jules de Bethizy; 2. To the Abbate Giromachi; 3. To the same; 4. To the Count Jules de Bethizy; 5. To the Baron von Kemperfelt; 6. To the Abbate Giromachi; 7. To the same; 8. To the Count Jules de Bethizy; 9. To the Professor Christian Jansen; 10. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.; 11. To the same; 12. To the Professor Jansen; 13. To the Count Jules de Bethizy; 14. To the Abbate Giromachi; 15. To the Professor Christian Jansen; 16. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.; 17. To the same; 18. To the same; 19. To the Count Jules de Bethizy; 20. To the same; 21. To Sir Edward Waller, Bart.; Notes.