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Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor (Cambridge Library Collection - History)
by James Fenimore Cooper
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Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor (Cambridge Library Collection - History)
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.
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- ISBN
9781108003865
- Published
- September 1st 2009 by Cambridge University Press
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 492
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152
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