James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851)

RESOURCES:

• Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
• Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
• Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding James Fenimore Cooper.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	james fenimore cooper Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals".	Provides a large number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	james fenimore cooper JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a number of revelant documents.
Encyclopedia Britannica	james fenimore cooper Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related articles.
Expanded Academic ASAP	james fenimore cooper Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text".	Provides a number of relevant items.
Literature Resource Center	james fenimore cooper Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles.	Provides a large number of quality documents.
Research Library Complete	james fenimore cooper Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library". Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals".	Provides a number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the two links for Cooper, James Fenimore : American Writers and Cooper, James Fenimore: Writers for Children.	Provides essays about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Cooper, James Fenimore link.	Provides a small number of quality items.

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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

• The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  
• Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  
• eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.

New essays on the Last of the Mohicans
PS1408N48 1992
Location: Troy, AL

Notable American novelists
Location: eBook

The Lasting of the Mohicans : History of an American Myth
Location: eBook

The Eclipse
Location: eBook

Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance
Location: eBook

Cooper's Leather-stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
Location: eBook

Notions of the Americans: Picked Up By a Travelling Bachelor
Location: eBook

The Two Admirals: A Tale
Location: eBook

The Deerslayer, Or, The First War-path
Location: eBook

Gleanings in Europe, the Rhine
Location: eBook

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
Location: eBook

The Prairie: A Tale
Location: eBook

Plotting America's Past: Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales
Location: eBook

The Pathfinder, Or, The Inland Sea
Location: eBook

The Last of the Mohicans
Location: eBook

The lasting of the Mohicans: history of an American myth
PS1408 .B37 1995
Location: Montgomery

Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper
PS1431.A3
Location: Troy, AL

Letters and journals
PS1431.A3 1960
Location: Troy, AL

James Fenimore Cooper: the novelist
PS1438.D4 1967
Location: Troy, AL

Plots and characters in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper
PS1441 .W3 1978
Location: Phenix City

The prairie
PS1416.A1 1900
Location: Troy, AL

The spy: a tale of the neutral ground
PS1417.S7 1900
Location: Troy, AL

James Fenimore Cooper: an introduction and interpretation
PS1431.W3
Location: Troy, AL

Leatherstocking and the critics
PS1438 .W3 1965
Location: Phenix City

The Whig myth of James Fenimore Cooper
PS1433.W3 1968
Location: Troy, AL

Three voices from Paumanok; the influence of Long Island on James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant [and] Walt Whitman
PS1434.B4 1969
Location: Troy, AL

James Fenimore Cooper, a collection of critical essays
PS1438 .J3 1979
Location: Phenix City

James Fenimore Cooper: new critical essays
PS1438.J33 1985B
Location: Dothan

The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757
PS1408.A2 R152
Location: Dothan

The Water-witch: or, The Skimmer of the seas
PS1418.W3 1900
Location: Troy, AL

Lionel Lincoln: or, The leaguer of Boston
PS1409.L4 1900
Location: Troy, AL

Afloat and ashore
PS1405.A4 1900
Location: Troy, AL

The wept of Wish-ton-wish
PS1418.W7 1900
Location: Troy, AL

The oak-openings: or, The bee-hunter
PS1409.O2 1900
Location: Troy, AL

Wyandotte: or, The hutted knoll
PS1419.W7 1900
Location: Troy, AL

The redskins: or, Indian and Injin
PS1417.R5 1900
Location: Troy, AL

The sea lions: or, The lost sealers
PS1417.S5 1900
Location: Troy, AL

 

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SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

• All American: James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit/cooper
  
• The Classic Text: James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg134.htm
  
• Early Nineteenth Century: James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/cooper.html
  
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain
  http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/cooper.asp
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/23/frameset.html
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/cooper.htm
  
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/cooper.htm
  
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm
  
• James Fenimore Cooper Society
  http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper
  
• Romancing the Indian: sentimentalizing and demonizing in Cooper and Twain
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7eHYPER/HNS/Indians/main.html