Gleanings in Europe

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Gleanings in Europe
England

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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

The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

Price: $57.50
Hardcover - 375 pages

Release Date: June 1981

ISBN10: 0-87395-367-3
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-367-2

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 375 pages

Release Date: June 1983

ISBN10: 0-87395-459-9
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-459-4

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

Related Subjects

European History

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