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Gleanings in Europe - England

English · Hardback

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A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the gangrene of the author's mind in its most foul and diseased state."

Such were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism.

Cooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.

Product details

Authors James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher State University of New York Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.06.1981
 
EAN 9780873953672
ISBN 978-0-87395-367-2
No. of pages 375
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
Weight 699 g
Series Writings of James Fenimore Coo
Writings of James Fenimore Coo
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales

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