Lionel Lincoln: or, The Leaguer of Boston
(June 1985)
James Fenimore Cooper - Author Donald A. Ringe - Historical introduction and notes Lucy B. Ringe - Historical introduction and notes
Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Lionel Lincoln was a radically new experiment in historical fiction. To recreate its events with the utmost accuracy, Cooper visited Boston in person in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, examine battlefields, read affidavits, consult records of the weather, and compare primary sources. George Bancroft declared in 1852 that Cooper had "described ...(Read More)
Gleanings in Europe
(June 1981)
England James Fenimore Cooper - Author Donald A. Ringe - Historical introduction and notes Kenneth W. Staggs - Historical introduction, notes, and text James P. Elliott - Text established by Robert D. Madison - Text established by
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."
