About the Site

W.H. Bartlett, View on the Susquehanna, at Liverpool, 1839. From N. P. Willis, American Scenery, 1840 [?].

This website contains over 500 entries specifically devoted to James Fenimore Cooper and his daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper. This includes

  • 251 papers from the biennial James Fenimore Cooper Conference/Seminars at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, relating to James Fenimore Cooper and his daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper (Nos. 1-20; 1978-2015)
  • 115 papers from the annual meetings of the American Literature Association (1990-2018)
  • 41 papers relating to Cooper from New York History, the publication of the New York State Historical Association (now Fenimore Art Museum) in Cooperstown, NY (1914-1995)
  • 4 Informal talks on Cooper (1990-2000)
  • 43 other papers and articles relating to James Fenimore Cooper (1899-2019)

as well as biographic, bibliographic, and genealogical information, along with texts of complete books, etc.

A video on James Fenimore Cooper can be viewed at C-Span American Writers — James Fenimore Cooper.

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