Research Catalog

Title

Susan Fenimore Cooper : new essays on Rural hours and other works / edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Rochelle.
• Patterson, Daniel, 1953-

Description

xxxii, 286 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894
• Natural history literature > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Susan Fenimore Cooper's published works in chronological order": p. 267-270.

Contents

• Foreword / Lawrence Buell -- Under the Table: Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Construction of Her Father's Reputation / Wayne Franklin -- "The Lumley Autograph" and the Great Literary Lion: Authenticity and Commodification in Nineteenth-Century Autograph Collecting / Allan Axelrad -- Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Home Book" of the Revolution: Mount Vernon: A Letter to the Children of America, Patriotism, and Sentiment / Lisa West Norwood -- Five Generations of Literary Coopers: Intergenerational Valuations of the American Frontier / Michael P. Branch -- Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rustic Primer / Lucy Maddox -- An Artist, or a Merchant's Clerk: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Elinor Wyllys and Landscape / Richard M. Magee -- The Borderers of Civilization: Susan Fenimore Cooper's View of American Development / Duncan Faherty -- Reading Susan Reading Ruth: Audience, Response, and the Historical Hermeneutics of Rural Hours / Michael Davey --
• A Farther Progress: Reconciling Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours / Jennifer Dawes -- The Noble Designs of Nature: God, Science, and the Picturesque in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours / Tina Gianquitto -- Rustic Matters: Placing the Rural Community Narratives of Alice Cary, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Caroline Kirkland in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Women's Sketchwriting Tradition / Erika M. Kreger -- Susan Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Beecher, and the Theology of Homemaking / Robert Hardy -- Botanical Gleanings: Susan Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Parr Traill, and the Representation of Flora / Lisa Stefaniak -- In Response to the Women at Seneca Falls: Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Rightful Place of Woman in America / Jessie Ravage -- App. 1. Susan Fenimore Cooper's Published Works in Chronological Order -- App. 2. Susan Fenimore Cooper's Letters and Manuscripts.

ISBN

0820323268 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001027078

OCLC

• ocm46319711
• SCSB-4215649

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries