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Research Projects Under Way
"Cooper Biography"
Wayne Franklin (University of Connecticut) is under contract with Yale University Press to publish his two-volume scholarly biography of Cooper. Volume One was published in 2007 and Volume Two is anticipated in 2010. We now have, at last, a massively-researched and most-welcome biography of Cooper, which places him firmly in the center of the literary, cultural, and political life of the antebellum Republic.
"Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper"
Jeffrey Walker (Oklahoma State) has published a series of essays on contemporary ways of reading and teaching Cooper, for AMS Press.
"Companion to Cooper"
Leland Person's volume on Cooper has appeared in this series for the Oxford University Press.
Call for Papers
The James Fenimore Cooper Society organizes papers for the annual American Literature Association Conference (projected for May 2009 in Boston), and assists with the biennial Cooper Conference at Oneonta and Cooperstown, planned for July 2009.
"Leather-Stocking Redux."
Jeffrey Walker is also editing this collection of essays which will contain ten new essays by leading nationally- and internationally-known Cooper scholars, complemented by a critical introduction, a bibliography of works cited, and an index to themes and characters. The volume (approximately 250 projected pages in print) will address such broad issues as our concern with race, gender, and ethnicity in Cooper’s world and its relationship to ours; Read more... [PDF]
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