Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works

Johnson, Rochelle L. [Editor]; Patterson, Daniel [Editor]; Buell, Lawrence [Foreword]; Axelrad, Allan [Contributor]; Faherty, Duncan [Contributor]; Kreger, Erika [Contributor]; Dawes, Jennifer [Contributor]; Ravage, Jessie [Contributor]; Buell, Lawrence [Contributor]; Stefaniak, Lisa [Contributor]; Norwood, Lisa [Contributor]; Maddox, Lucy [Contributor]; Davey, Michael [Contributor]; Branch, Michael P. [Contributor]; Magee, Richard [Contributor]; Hardy, Robert [Contributor]; Gianquitto, Tina [Contributor]; Franklin, Wayne [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 0820323268 / ISBN 13: 9780820323268

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820323268
• ISBN 13: 9780820323268
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 22 ounces

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Synopsis

Collected here are detailed and diverse essays, some that examine Rural Hours, Susan Fenimore Cooper's most famous work, and others that help establish Cooper as a major practitioner and theorist of American nature writing and as a socially engaged artist in many other genres. These essays discuss Cooper's uses and manipulations of various literary conventions, such as the picturesque, the literary village sketch, and domestic fiction, and illuminate her positions on conservation, religion, and woman's place in society.

The engaging collection is divided into four sections. The first features essays examining Cooper's work in light of her relationship with her famous literary father, James Fenimore Cooper, and their devotion to and cultivation of each other's careers. The second focuses on Cooper's fascination with landscape and its relation to her environmental philosophies. Rural Hours is the subject of the third section, which presents new readings on its subtly crafted authorial stance, its two complementary conceptions of time, and its re-valuation of rural and scientific ways of knowing. The collection concludes with four works whose insights into Cooper's views on gender, domesticity, and environmental philosophy grow out of comparisons with several contemporary women writers.

These remarkable essays by both established and emerging scholars of nineteenth-century literature present new findings and insights into a writer who is being reintroduced to the fields of eco-criticism and American literature.

About the Author

Rochelle L. Johnson (Editor)
ROCHELLE L. JOHNSON is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho and immediate past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She is the coeditor, with Daniel Patterson, of two volumes of Susan Fenimore Cooper's writings, Rural Hours and Essays on Nature and Landscape, as well as a collection of scholarly essays, Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works (all Georgia).

Daniel Patterson (Editor)
DANIEL PATTERSON is a professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia.