Lionel Lincoln: Or, the Leaguer of Boston, by James Fenimore Cooper
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Lionel Lincoln: Or, the Leaguer of Boston, by James Fenimore Cooper- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.88" w x 6.14" l, 3.17 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 912 pages
About the Author James Fenimore Cooper was a nineteenth-century American author and political critic. Esteemed by many for his Romantic style, Cooper became popular for his depiction of Native Americans in fiction. Before Cooper considered himself a writer, he was expelled from Yale University, served as a midshipman for the United States Navy, and became a gentleman farmer. Cooper wrote many notable works including The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Red Rover, which was adapted and performed on stage in 1828. Cooper passed away in 1851 at the age of 61.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. How the editors established the best text of Cooper's 1825 novel By T. Patrick Killough If you are not picky about typos or how accurate is the reproduction you are reading of a classic American historical novel such as Cooper's 1825 LIONEL LINCOLN, then any old text or recent uncritical reprint will do. Not long ago I read for the first time LIONEL LINCOLN in such a weathered old edition. It had been printed in New York, was undated and I had to cut its pages open myself.My book had the merit of being cheaply purchased. And it served its elementary purpose. The print was legible and the tale proved unsuspectedly good. Over eleven months after the April 1775 skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, the British army and navy were squeezed by rebellious colonials into cramped defensive positions in and around Boston. In March 1776 George Washington and his Continentals, along with the local Minutemen did the unthinkable: they compelled General Howe and the Royal fleet to sail off to Nova Scotia to plot new attacks against the American rebels. British armed forces never returned to Boston. This was the beginning of a turning point in world history (like a Walter Scott historical novel): the removal of British sovereignty from 13 North American colonies.Into this revolutionary cauldron just before the failed Red Coats march to gather rebel arms at Concord, comes the tale's "wavering hero," 25-year old Major of Grenadiers Lionel Lincoln. He had been born in Boston but went to England in boyhood where he was educated at Oxford and is in 1775 a member of Parliament from a safe family borough. Lionel's baronet father was placed ten years earlier in an English insane asylum. Lionel worries that madness is hereditary in his family and he senses incipient insanity may explain that he reacts too passionately and spontaneously to various provocations. He falls in love, nonetheless, with a local beauty, when he is not busy fighting rebels and watching the battle for Bunker Hill. Several subplots involving a mysterious old stranger from England, a 27-year old simpleminded man named Job Pray and a dark marriage scene in a Boston chapel are drenched in elements of highly popular Gothic conventions. A solid, accurate historical novel. Defensible experimentation by Cooper with the Gothic.All this I derived from my very ordinary weathered text of LIONEL LINCOLN. But I also felt the need to study a more scholarly edition with good introduction and notes. And I found that in this 1984 State University of New York edition. The Historical Introduction and Notes by Donald A Ringe and Lucy B. Ringe are first rate. Most fascinating to me was their effort to establish the best possible text of this, Cooper's fifth novel. No easy task. For no Cooper MS exists. In 1832 Cooper revised for an English publisher several of his novels and wrote a fresh preface for LIONEL LINCOLN. Yet certain handwritten remains which we have for revisions of other novels (and which we know he did for LIONEL LINCOLN) have been lost for this 1832 review. In a nutshell, the two editors tried to preserve as much of the faulty first New York edition as possible, including American colloquialisms later edited out in England.This New York State University critical edition also presents 16 contemporary illustrations (including four from the first French edition of the novel). This edition also discusses at length critical reactions in several countries to what proved a publishing flop. An education in itself, beyond Cooper's gripping yarn.In his 1832 Preface, James Fenimore Cooper rationalized his marketplace failure as deriving from the impossibility of combining very detailed, well researched war research with fantastic imagined Gothic elements. Cooper never attempted quite that feat ever again in the remaining 26 novels he would write. -OOO-
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