Index of Other Writers and Artists

This index includes articles and papers in which either James and/or Susan Fenimore Cooper are discussed in relation to other writers, artists, or others; they are listed alphabetically.

(A) The Advocate | American Novelists, early | Jane Austen

(B)Edward Ball [Fitzball] | Beadles Dime Novels | Honoré de Balzac | Ambrose Bierce | Edward Bulwer-Lytton

(D)Charles Dickens | Emily Dickinson | Thomas Attwood Digges

(F)Sigmund Freud

(G)William Godwin | Samuel Goodrich | Horatio Greenough

(H)Basil Hall |Martin Heidegger | Charles Fenno Hoffman | Horace | William Dean Howells

(I)Icelandic Sagas | Washington Irving

(J)Helen Hunt Jackson

(L)D.H. Lawrence

(N)Louis L. Noble | Thomas Nuttall

(O)Elizabeth Oakes Smith

(P)“Abraham Panther” (pseud.) | Edgar Allan Poe | Alexander Pushkin

(R)John Richardson | Mary Rowlandson

(T)William Thackeray | Henry Thoreau | Catharine Parr Traill

(V)Jules Verne

(W)Georg Weerth | “Unca Eliza Winkfield” (pseud.) | N.C. Wyeth

(Z)Johann Heinrich Zschokke

The Advocate of Moral Reform [New York Journal, 1835-ca. 1845]

terling, Victoria (Lehman College/CUNY), Virtues and Failings: The Deerslayer, The Advocate, and the Discourse of Female Moral Reform. Cooper’s novel and The Advocate of Moral Reform consider female gender roles.

ight Early American Novelists

chachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), American Fiction before Cooper Worth Reading. Introduction to eight pre-Cooper novelists: Charles Brockden Brown (Edgar Huntley, etc.), William Hill Brown (The Power of Sympathy), Henry Hugh Brackenridge (Modern Chivalry), Gilbert Imlay (The Emigrants), Royall Tyler (The Algerine Captive), Hannah Webster Foster (Charlotte Temple), Susanna Haswell Rowson (The Coquette), and Tabitha Gilman Tenney (Female Quixotism).

usten, Jane [English novelist, [1775-1817]

ann, Barbara Alice (University of Toledo). Aunt Jane and Father Fenimore: The Jane Austen — James Fenimore Cooper Connection. Categories of similarity in the novels of Jane Austen and Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales.

all, Edward (Fitzball) [English dramatist, 1792-1873]

Crane, James (The College of St. Scholastica). Love and Liberty: A Transatlantic Adaptation of The Pilot. Edward Ball (1792-1873), as “Fitzball” a prolific writer of English melodrama, transforms the novel into a highly successful musical burletta for a patriotic British audience.

alzac, Honoré de [French novelist, 1799-1850]

McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Revolution and the Historical Novel : Cooper’s Transforming of European Tradition. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln reject the wavering European hero of Scott, Balzac, and Pushkin, but accept the notion of innate character.

eadle, Erastus [Publisher of “Dime Novels”, 1821-1894]

lark, Beverly Lyon (Wheaton College, Mass.), Rethinking Cora and Alice, from Dime Novels to Debby Barnes. Early “Beadle’s Dime Novel” Indian captivity tales (Ann Sophia Stehens’ Malaeska the Indian Wife (1860), Mahaska, The Indian Princess (1863), and The Indian Queen (1864), and Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s The Sagamore of Saco (1868), compared with Constance Lindsay Skinner’s modern Debby Barnes, Trader (1932), and with Cooper.

ierce, Ambrose [American writer, 1842-af.1913]

Cody, David (Hartwick College), Bierce and the Cooperian Uncanny. Ambrose Bierce’s possible borrowings from gothic moments in Cooper — notably in The Pioneers, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

ulwer-Lytton, Edward (Baron Lytton) [British novelist, 1803-1873]

Carleton, Chris (Universiti Sain Malaysia, Penang), Justice and Moral Courage in The Spy. Cooper’s concern is moral rather than social, in contrast to British novels by Godwin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Dickens.

astlemon, Harry [American author, 1842-1915]

Harthorn, Steven P. (University of Northwestern-St. Paul), Frank Imitations: Harry Castlemon’s Literary Debt to Cooper. Boys’ adventure books by Harry Castlemon (1842-1915).

hild, Lydia Maria [American novelist, 1802-1880]

Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), ’Wizards of the West’? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the ‘Wizard of the North’. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further.
Dolata, April (Rutgers University), Child and Cooper: Competing Perspectives on Race in Early American Fiction. The Last of the Mohicans as a response to Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok.

hurch, Frederic E. [American painter and writer, 1826-1900]

Katz, Roberta Gray (DePaul University), Envisioning Icebergs: Fenimore Cooper, Louis L. Noble, and Frederic E. Church. (Abstract) Cooper’s depiction of icebergs in The Sea Lions influenced writings of Louis L. Noble (1813-1882) and of Frederic E. Church (1826-1900).

ole, Thomas [American painter, 1801-1848]

Axelrad, Allan M. (University of Pennsylvania), History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1978. (x, 231 p.) © 1978 by Allan M. Axelrad, and placed online with his permission. A major and provocative study of Cooper’s intellectual and religious views, as reflected in a detailed study of his novels and other writings.
Bailey, Brigitte (University of New Hampshire), The Panoptic Sublime and the Formation of the American Citizen in Cooper’s Wing-and-Wing and Cole’s Mount Etna from Taormina, Sicily. Novel and the painting both make use of a panoramic view, reflecting parallel changes in their creators’ outlooks in the 1840s.
Katz, Roberta Gray (DePaul University), Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans. Cole’s four Mohicans paintings as literary and historical documents, not just landscapes.
Magee, Richard M. (Fordham University), Landscape of Loss, Landscape of Promise. Thomas Cole, history, and the Coopers: JFC’s landscapes (The Last of the Mohicans) look back with sorrow; SFC’s (Rural Hours) look forward with hope.
Marshall, Ian (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Cooper’s “Course of Empire”: Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American Civilization in The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers. In The Crater Cooper borrowed Thomas Cole’s mountain image to symbolize God; in his earlier novels mountains symbolize America.
Redekop, Ernest H. (University of Western Ontario), Cooper’s Emblems of History. Using landscape to portray history in The Last of the Mohicans, Satanstoe, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater (in the last, Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire).
Schwartz, Rebecca Ayres (University of Delaware). Historicism and Nostalgia in Thomas Cole’s Last of the Mohicans. Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans and Thomas Cole’s four paintings based on it use nostalgia to create a sense of national identity.
Walker, Jeffrey (Oklahoma State University), Fenimore Cooper’s Wyandotté and the Cyclic Course of Empire. Influence of Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire series.

oleridge, Samuel Taylor [English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834]

Siewers, Alfred Kentigern (Bucknell University), Cooper, Coleridge, and Re-Imagining a Native Cosmology. Literary and philosophical analysis of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Cooper’s The Deerslayer.

opway, George [Native American traveler and journalist, 1818-1869]

Wallace, David Shane (American University in Bulgaria). Copway’s Homage to Cooper: Redefining the ‘Vanishing American,’. George Copway (1818-1869), a traveled and literary Ojibwa Indian, honors the elderly Cooper.

ickens, Charles [British novelist, 1812-1870]

Carleton, Chris (Universiti Sain Malaysia, Penang), Justice and Moral Courage in The Spy. Cooper’s concern is moral rather than social, in contrast to British novels by Godwin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Dickens.

ickinson, Emily [American poet, 1830-1886

Gilbert, Margaret (James Fenimore Cooper Society), Emily Dickinson and James Fenimore Cooper: Dickinson’s Captive Consciousness. Indirect evidence of Cooper’s influence on Dickinson’s work.

igges, Thomas Attwood [American merchant and writer, 1742-1821

Payne, Daniel (SUNY College at Oneonta), Sex, Slavery, and the Sea: The Adventures of Alonso (1775). Thomas Digges’ 1775 novel is arguably the first novel by an American author, but also an early novel of the sea.

reud, Sigmund [Austrian psychologist, 1856-1939]

Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Civilization and its Discontents: Freud Meets Cooper in The Prairie. Considering this novel in the light of Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, especially as concerns its treatment of the conflict between personal freedom and entering a social compact.

odwin, William [British philospher and novelist, 1756-1836]

Carleton, Chris (Universiti Sain Malaysia, Penang), Justice and Moral Courage in The Spy. Cooper’s concern is moral rather than social, in contrast to British novels by Godwin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Dickens.

oodrich, Samuel [American author, 1793-1860]

Sivils, Matthew Wynn (Iowa State University), When Peter Parley Met Natty Bumppo: Samuel Goodrich, James Fenimore Cooper, and the Invention of a Young Adult Frontier. Samuel Goodrich (1793-1860) writes his Peter Parley’s Story of Little Marion (1830) as a sort of juvenile Pioneers.

reenough, Horatio [American sculptor, 1805-1852]

(1870) Cooper, Susan Fenimore, Greenough’s Chanting Cherubs. Letter to the Editor relating James Fenimore Cooper’s commissioning of Horatio Greenough’s sculpture The Chanting Cherubs.
(1957) Wright, Nathalia (University of Tennessee), The Chanting Cherubs: Horatio Greenough’s Marble Group for James Fenimore Cooper. Genesis, reception, significance, and disappearance of statue commissioned by Cooper.

all, Basil [English traveler, (1788-1844)]

Blakemore, Steven (Florida Atlantic University), Cooper, Basil Hall, and Anglo-American Cultural Wars. Cooper’s 1831 article in Colburn’s New Montly Magazine, respondings to Basil Hall’s attacks on American culture and society.

eidegger, Martin [German philosopher, 1889-1976]

Lockard, Joseph (University of California at Berkeley), Cooper, Heidegger and the Language of Death: Or, Why is Natty Bumppo Speaking Ebonics? The Pioneers turkey-shooting scene seen as genocidal racism, an example of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “inauthentic Da-sein.”

offman, Charles Fenno [American writer, 1806-1884]

Harthorn, Steven P. (Williams Baptist College), Out-Coopering Cooper? Hoffman’s Greyslaer and the Critics. Charles Fenno Hoffman’s 1840 novel was inevitably read and reviewed in the light of Cooper’s domination of frontier stories.

orace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] [Roman poet and philosopher, 65-8 B.C.]

Tamer, Nanette C. (Villa Julie College), Sibi Imperiosus: Cooper’s Horatian Ideal of Self-Governance in The Deerslayer. Comparisons between Cooper’s and Horatio’s notions of virtue.

owells, William Dean [American writer, 1837-1920]

Schachterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), The Mature Marriage in Cooper’s Fiction. Cooper’s mature literary marriages — some successful (especially The Prairie, but also Wyandotté, The Heidenmauer, and The Crater); others ranging from unhelpful (Precaution) to destructive (Jack Tier); contrasted with Howells’ Rise of Silas Lapham.

celandic Sagas [ca. 1000 AD

Wegener, Signe O. (University of Georgia), A Brave New World: Wilderness Dreams and Female Empowerment from Vineland to the Pacific. Strong women, not just in Cooper, but in earlier international writings including: Freydis in the Icelandic Saga of Erick the Red (ca. 1000); Queen Calafia in Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Explandián (1510); Unca in Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseud.), The Female American (1767); and “The Lady” in Abraham Panther (pseud.), The Panther Captivity (1787).

rving, Washington [American writer and historian, 1783-1859]

Lampe, David (Buffalo State College), Double Dutch Delights: Irving’s Knickerbocker History and Cooper’s Water Witch. Shakespearian comedy in Irving’s “History” and Cooper’s novel.
Pilote, Pauline (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), “A Region fruitful of wonders and adventures”: Romancing the West in Cooper’s and Irving’s Narratives. Contrasting Cooper’s treatment of the frontier, mostly from the Leatherstocking Tales with Irving’s A Tour of the Prairies, Astoria, and “The Adventures of Captain Bonneville.

ackson, Helen Hunt [American writer, 1830-1885]

Suzuki, Taisuke (Asahi University, Japan), The True Beginning of Native American Novels by James Fenimore Cooper and Helen Hunt Jackson. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales and Jackson’s Ramona (1884) as pioneering novels treating Native Americans seriously.

awrence, D.H. [British writer, 1885-1930]

Suzuki, Taisuke (Asahi University, Japan), The Background to Cooper’s Literary Works. Musings on D. H. Lawrence’s writings about Cooper.

edieval Romances

Lampe, David (Buffalo State University), A Knight of Ancient Chivalry: The Last of the Mohicans as Medieval Romance. Comparisons with Amadis de Gaule and other medieval romances.

elville, Herman [American writer, 1819-1891]

Norwood, Lisa West (Drake University), Cooper’s Pacific: The Crater and Theories of History in the South Seas. The Crater deals with a variety of narratives, of America in the Pacific, of natural history, and of of human experiences of history, which differ from those in Melville’s Typee.
Wegener, Signe (University of Georgia), Two Americans Abroad: The Italian Soggiorni of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville; or, Travel as a Literary Act. Following the two authors’ steps through Rome, as seen through Cooper’s Gleanings in Europe: Italy and Melville’s Journal and Correspondence.

era, Juan León> [Ecuadoran Novelist and Nationalist, 1832-1894)

Genova, Thomas (University of Minnesota, Morris), Family Entanglements: Cooper in Nineteenth-Century South America. How Juan León Mera’s Cumandá reconfigures Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans to serve the author’s own nation-building purposes in Ecuador.

ickiewicz, Adam [Polish Poet and Nationalist, 1798-1855]

Rumbinas, Barbara and Mazur, Zygmunt (Jagiellonian University, Poland). Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper: A Reappraisal. Explores the friendship between Cooper and the Polish poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz.
Rumbinas, Barbara and Mazur, Zygmunt (Jagiellonian University), Adam Mickiewicz: A Catalyst for James Fenimore Cooper’s Support for Polish Independence. Influence of Mickiewicz on Cooper.

ilton, John [English poet, 1608-1674]

Richardson, Donna (St. Mary’s College), A Man With a Cross: Cooper’s Romantic Revision of Paradise Lost in The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper’s novel as a multi-cultural vision of Milton’s poem.

orse, Samuel Finlay [American painter and inventor, 1791-1872]

Crawford, James (Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery), James Fenimore Cooper and his Family in Samuel Finlay Morse’s Painting: The Gallery of the Louvre. Analysis of the Morse painting, and significance of its inclusion of the Cooper family.
Iglesias, Luis A. (University of Southrn Mississippi), James Fenimore Cooper as Art Critic and Connoisseur. Cooper and the Fine Arts.

ontalvo, Garcia Ordóñez de [Spanish writer, (1450-1504]

Wegener, Signe O. (University of Georgia), A Brave New World: Wilderness Dreams and Female Empowerment from Vineland to the Pacific. Strong women, not just in Cooper, but in earlier international writings including: Freydis in the Icelandic Saga of Erick the Red (ca. 1000); Queen Calafia in Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Explandián (1510); Unca in Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseud.), The Female American (1767); and “The Lady” in Abraham Panther (pseud.), The Panther Captivity (1787).

oble, Louis L. [American writer and artist, 1813-1882]

Katz, Roberta Gray (DePaul University), Envisioning Icebergs: Fenimore Cooper, Louis L. Noble, and Frederic E. Church. (Abstract) Cooper’s depiction of icebergs in The Sea Lions influenced writings of Louis L Noble (1813-1882) and of Frederic E. Church (1826-1900).

uttall, Thomas [English naturalist, 1786-1859]

Madison, Robert D. (University of Arkansas). Cooper and Nuttall: the Course of Empire. The eccentric naturalist Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) as a source for Cooper’s The Prairie and its Obed Bat.

akes Smith, Elizabetn [American writer of dime novelists; female rights advocate, 1806-1893]

Clark, Beverly Lyon (Wheaton College, Mass.), Rethinking Cora and Alice, from Dime Novels to Debby Barnes. Early “Beadle’s Dime Novel” Indian captivity tales (Ann Sophia Stehens’ Malaeska the Indian Wife (1860), Mahaska, The Indian Princess (1863), and The Indian Queen (1864), and Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s The Sagamore of Saco (1868), compared with Constance Lindsay Skinner’s modern Debby Barnes, Trader (1932), and with Cooper.

Panther, Abraham [American writer, real name unknown, fl. 1789]

Wegener, Signe O. (University of Georgia), A Brave New World: Wilderness Dreams and Female Empowerment from Vineland to the Pacific. Strong women, not just in Cooper, but in earlier international writings including: Freydis in the Icelandic Saga of Erick the Red (ca. 1000); Queen Calafia in Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Explandián (1510); Unca in Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseud.), The Female American (1767); and “The Lady” in Abraham Panther (pseud.), The Panther Captivity (1787).

oe, Edgar Allan [American writer, 1809-1849]

Goldbaek, Henning (Institute of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen), Poe and Cooper: A comparison, between an American Democrat and a Southern Gentleman. Despite major differences in outlook, parallels can be found in the two writers.
Iglesias, Luis A. (University of Southern Mississippi), James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of Science Fiction. Cooper’s works anticipate those of Mary Shelley, Poe, and especially Jules Verne.

ushkin, Alexander [Russian poet and novelist, 1799-1837]

McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Revolution and the Historical Novel : Cooper’s Transforming of European Tradition. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln reject the wavering European hero of Scott, Balzac, and Pushkin, but accept the notion of innate character.

ichardson, John [Canadian novelist, 1796-1852]

Finlayson, Alan James (Independent Scholar), Re-Evaluating “The Canadian Cooper”. Argues for proper understanding of Canadian novelist Major John Richardson in light of portrayals by Cooper scholars that seem incomplete or unfavorable.
MacDougall, Hugh (Corresponding Secretary, James Fenimore Cooper Society), The Novels of John Richardson, “The Canadian Cooper”. Introduction to the author (1796-1852) of Wacousta (1832) and The Canadian Brothers (1840), and their debt both to Cooper and to 18ᵗʰ Century Drama.
Watts, Edward (Michigan State University), Cooper, Richardson, and the Frontiers of Nationalism. Cooper’s nationalism both influenced and was modified in the Canadian nationalism of John Richardson’s Indian tales Wacousta (1832), and The Canadian Brothers (1840).

owlandson, Mary [Early American writer, ca. 1637-1711

Hillson, Franklin (Morgan State University), The Captivity Narrative and The Last of the Mohicans: Foundation and Modification. Cooper’s debt to the captivity narrative tradition established by Mary Rowlindson’s 1682 The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.

cott, Sir Walter [British novelist, 1771-1832]

Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), ’Wizards of the West’? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the ‘Wizard of the North’. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further.
Dekker, George G. (Stanford University), Border and Frontier: Tourism in Scott’s Guy Mannering and Cooper’s The Pioneers. Two approaches to the “tourist” and cultural exoticism.
Harthorn, Steven P. (Univeristy of Tennessee), Truth and Consequences: James Fenimore Cooper on Scott, Columbus, Bumppo, and Professional Authorship. Cooper’s assertions of dishonesty in Walter Scott, and his claims to veracity in Mercedes of Castille and The Deerslayer.
Kelly, William P. (Queens College, City University of New York), History, Language, and The Leatherstocking Tales. Historiography of later Tales contrasted with that of earler ones, and with Scott’s Waverley novels.
McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Revolution and the Historical Novel : Cooper’s Transforming of European Tradition. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln reject the wavering European hero of Scott, Balzac, and Pushkin, but accept the notion of innate character.

edgwick, Catharine Maria [American novelist, 1789-1867]

Avila, Beth (Independent Scholar), “She Never Became What She Once Was”: Cooper, Sedgwick, and the American Pirate Story. Cooper’s The Red Rover and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (both 1827).
Buchenau, Barbara (University of Goettingen, German), ’Wizards of the West’? How Americans respond to Sir Walter Scott, the ‘Wizard of the North’. How Cooper diverged from Scott and European writers, and Child (Hobomok) and Sedgwick (Hope Leslie) carried the divergence further.
Daly, Robert (University at Buffalo), Network Culture in James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Not just families, but affiliation, covenants, and networks based on choice and volition in the two authors.
Fanuzzi, Robert (St. Johns University), Empire of Tears. Cooper (and Catharine Maria Sedgwick) used a feminized historical novel to transform the Indian captivity tale into the sentimental novel.
Kalayjian, Patricia Larson (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?. Relations between Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
McClellan, Kendall (Binghamton University), A Less than Revolutionary Romance: Leadership, Liberty, and “the People” in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy. Differing views of populism in Cooper’s novel and in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods.

chiller, Friedrich [German poet and writer, 1759-1805]

Lampe, David (Buffalo State University), Gothic Cooper: The Shaping of The Bravo. Cooper’s debt to the Gothic “outlaw” tradition, as reflected in Friedrich Schiller’s Die Rauber [The Robbers] and Johann Heinrich Zschokke’s Abaellino, der grosse Bandit [The Bravo of Venice].

helley, Mary [English writer (notably of Frankenstein),1798-1851]

Iglesias, Luis A. (University of Southern Mississippi), James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of Science Fiction. Cooper’s works anticipate those of Mary Shelley, Poe, and especially Jules Verne.

kinner, Constance Lindsay [Canadian writer, (1877-1939]

Clark, Beverly Lyon (Wheaton College, Mass.), Rethinking Cora and Alice, from Dime Novels to Debby Barnes. Early “Beadle’s Dime Novel” Indian captivity tales (Ann Sophia Stehens’ Malaeska the Indian Wife (1860), Mahaska, The Indian Princess (1863), and The Indian Queen (1864), and Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s The Sagamore of Saco (1868), compared with Constance Lindsay Skinner’s modern Debby Barnes, Trader (1932), and with Cooper.

Stephens, Ann S. [American writer of Dime Novels, 1810-1886]

Clark, Beverly Lyon (Wheaton College, Mass.), Rethinking Cora and Alice, from Dime Novels to Debby Barnes. Early “Beadle’s Dime Novel” Indian captivity tales (Ann Sophia Stehens’ Malaeska the Indian Wife (1860), Mahaska, The Indian Princess (1863), and The Indian Queen (1864), and Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s The Sagamore of Saco (1868), compared with Constance Lindsay Skinner’s modern Debby Barnes, Trader (1932), and with Cooper.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher [American writer and reformer, 1811-1896]

Kadish, Philip (Hunter College, CUNY), Race-Science Rhetoric as Political Panacea: James Fenimore Cooper’s Influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cooper’s adoption and criticism of racial theories of Buffon and Condorcet, in The Pioneers (1823), Notions of the Americans (1828) and The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish (1829).
Samuels, Shirley (Cornell University), Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nationalism and the Historical Novel. [Keynote Address for the Cooper Conference.] Creating a nation in early American historical fiction, notably in Cooper’s The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer, and in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

hackeray, William Makepeace [English writer, 1811-1863]

Lampe, David (Buffalo State University), Comic Cooper: Thackeray’s Burlesque of The Last of the Mohicans and The Pilot. What Cooper did with his sources, and what Thackeray did to him.

horeau, Henry [American writer, 1817-1862]

Bagby, George F. (Hampden-Sydney College), Kindred Spirits: Cooper and Thoreau. Similarities in ethical, political, economic, and environmental spheres.

raill, Catharine Parr [Canadian nature writer, 1802-1899]

Dyer, Klay (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), Turning Over a New Leaf: The Literary Ecologies of Susan Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Parr Traill. A Canadian and and an American naturalist/writer, working separately, created a new literary genre.

rollope, Fanny [British Traveler, 1780-1863]

McWilliams, John (Middlebury College), Bragging and Dodge-ing in America, or Domestic Manners As Found. Cooper’s dismay at American manners in the 1830s, as reflected in Homeward Bound and Home as Found.

wain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) [American writer, 1835-1910]

Alpern, Will J. (Prudential-Bache Securities), Indians, Sources, Critics. Cooper’s sources, especially Moravian missionaries to the Mohegan/Mohicans of Connecticut/New York; efforts to discredit Cooper by Louis Cass and Mark Twain.
Gilbert, Margaret (Rutgers University), An Arch of Trees. Detailed criticism of Mark Twain’s denunciation of the “ark” scene in the early part of Cooper’s The Deerslayer.
Person, Leland S., Jr. (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne) The Leatherstocking Tradition in American Fiction: or, The Sources of Tom Sawyer: A Descriptive Essay. The source of Tom Sawyer, in characters, theme, and many plot details is — Cooper’s The Pioneers !
Ramos, Peter (Buffalo State University), Nature’s “harshest but truest colors”; Romantic and Un-Romantic Nature in The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both Cooper and Mark Twain uneasily offer “a particular view of nature, as sublime cure for the ills of civilization or else a mirror of man’s violence.”
Schachterle, Lance and Kent Ljungquist (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Defenses: Twain and the Text of The Deerslayer. Joel Myerson, ed., Studies in the American Renaissance 1988, pp. 401-417. Point-by-point exposé of deliberate fabrications in Mark Twain’s notorious “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” (1895)

erne, Jules [French novelist, including science fiction, 1828-1905]

Iglesias, Luis A. (University of Southern Mississippi), James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of Science Fiction. Cooper’s works anticipate those of Mary Shelley, Poe, and especially Jules Verne.

eerth, Georg [German clergyman and revolutionary, 1822-1856]

Bergmann, Frank (Utica College), Kill-deer in the Hands of a German Forty-Eighter: A Cooper Reference in Georg Weerth’s Humoristische Skizzen aus dem deutschen Handelsleben. Cooper and Georg Weerth (1822-1856).

inkfield, UnCA Eliza (pseud). [American, real identity unknown, fl. 1766]

Wegener, Signe O. (University of Georgia), A Brave New World: Wilderness Dreams and Female Empowerment from Vineland to the Pacific. Strong women, not just in Cooper, but in earlier international writings including: Freydis in the Icelandic Saga of Erick the Red (ca. 1000); Queen Calafia in Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Explandián (1510); Unca in Unca Eliza Winkfield (pseud.), The Female American (1767); and “The Lady” in Abraham Panther (pseud.), The Panther Captivity (1787).

yeth, N[ewell] C[onvers] [American artist and illustrator, 1882-1945]

Donahue, James (University of Connecticut), Representing Cooper’s Landscape: The N.C. Wyeth Illustrations. The significance of N.C. Wyeth’s well-known illustrations of The Last of the Mohicans.

schokke, Johan Heinrich [ German/Swiss writer, 1771-1848]

Lampe, David (Buffalo State University), Gothic Cooper: The Shaping of The Bravo. Cooper’s debt to the Gothic “outlaw” tradition, as reflected in Friedrich Schiller’s Die Rauber [The Robbers] and Johann Heinrich Zschokke’s Abaellino, der grosse Bandit [The Bravo of Venice].