James Fenimore Cooper ou la frontière mélancolique
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Cette bibliographie1 se veut sélective. Elle est axée en priorité sur The Last of the Mohicans. Pour une bibliographie plus exhaustive jusqu’en 1991, voir :
Dyer, Alan Frank, James Fenimore Cooper. An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, New York, Greenwood Press, 1991.
Textes de James Fenimore Cooper
Fiction (dans l’ordre chronologique de parution)
Precaution : A Novel (1820), New York, A. T. Goodrich, 1820.
The Spy : A Tale of the Neutral Ground (1821), Wayne Franklin (éd.), New York, Penguin, 1997.
The Pioneers ; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna (1823), James D. Wallace (éd.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Pilot : A Tale of the Sea (1823) in Sea Tales. The Pilot ; The Red Rover, Kay Seymour House et Thomas L. Philbrick (éd.), New York, Library of America, 1991, p. 1-422.
Lionel Lincoln ; or, The Leaguer of Boston (1825), Donald A. et Lucy B. Ringe (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1985.
The Last of the Mohicans : A Narrative of 1757 (1826), John McWilliams (éd.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Prairie (1827), Donald A. Ringe (éd.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Red Rover (1828), Thomas Philbrick et Marianne Philbrick (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1991.
The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829), New York, Townsend, 1859.
The Water-Witch ; or, The Skimmer of the Seas (1830), Philadelphie, Carey & Lea, 1830.
The Bravo : A Venetian Story (1831), Lance Schachterle et James A. Sappenfield (éd.), New York, AMS Press, 2011.
The Heidenmauer ; or, The Benedictines, A Legend of the Rhine (1832), New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1871.
The Headsman ; or, The Abbaye des Vignerons (1833), Londres, Richard Bentley, 1833.
The Monikins (1835), Philadelphie, Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1835.
Homeward Bound ; or, The Chase : ATale of the Sea (1838), Philadelphie, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1839.
Home as Found : Sequel to Homeward Bound (1838), New York, Hurd & Houghton, 1871.
The Pathfinder ; or, The Inland Sea (1840), William P. Kelly (éd.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Mercedes of Castile ; or, The Voyage to Cathay (1840), Philadelphie, Lea & Blanchard, 1840.
The Deerslayer ; or, The First War-Path (1841), Donald Pease (éd.), New York, Penguin Books, 1987.
The Two Admirals (1842), Donald A. Ringe (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990.
The Wing-and-Wing ; or, Le Feu-Follet. A Tale (1842), Thomas Philbrick (éd.), New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1998.
Wyandotté ; or, The Hutted Knoll (1843), Philadelphie, Lea & Blanchard, 1843.
Ned Myers ; or A Life before the Mast (1843), Philadelphie, Lea & Blanchard, 1843.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handerchief (1843), Matthew Wynn Sivils et James P. Elliott (éd.), New York, AMS Press, 2012.
Afloat and Ashore ; or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford (1844), Thomas Philbrick et Marianne Philbrick (éd.), New York, AMS Press, 2004.
Satanstoe ; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts : A Tale of the Colony (1845), Kay Seymour House (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990.
The Chainbearer ; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts (1845), New York, Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845.
The Redskins ; or, Indian and Injin : Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts (1846), New York, Appleton and Company, 1892.
The Crater ; or, Vulcan’s Peak : A Tale of the Pacific (1847), Thomas Philbrick (éd.), Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.
Jack Tier ; or, The Florida Reef (1848), New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1848.
The Oak Openings ; or, The Bee-Hunter (1848), New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1871.
The Sea Lions ; or, The Lost Sealers (1849), Warren S. Walker (éd.), Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1965.
The Ways of the Hour : A Tale (1850), New York, Hurd & Houghton, 1871.
The Leatherstocking Tales, volume I : The Pioneers. The Last of the Mohicans. The Prairie, New York, The Library of America, 1985, p. 884.
Non-fiction
Early Critical Essays, by James Fenimore Cooper (1820-22), James Franklin Beard (éd.), Gainesville, Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, 1955.
Notions of the Americans : Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor (1828), Gary Williams (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1991.
Gleanings in Europe. Switzerland (1836), Robert E. Spiller et James F. Beard (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1980.
Gleanings in Europe. The Rhine (1836), Ernest Redekop et Maurice Geracht (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1986.
Gleanings in Europe. France (1837), Thomas Philbrick (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1983.
Gleanings in Europe. England (1837), Donald A. Ringe et Kenneth W. Staggs (éd.), Madison, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1982.
Gleanings in Europe. Italy (1838), John Conron et Constance Ayers Denne (éd.), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981.
The American Democrat : or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America (1838) in The American Democrat and other Political Writings, Bradley J. Birzer et John Willson (éd.), Washington D.C., Regnery Publishing, 2000.
The Chronicles of Cooperstown (1838), Cooperstown, H & E Phinney, 1838.
The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839), 2 vol., Philadelphie, Lea & Blanchard, 1839.
Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers (1846), Philadelphie, Carey & Hart, 1846.
The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper, James Franklin Beard (éd.), 6 vol., Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960-1968.
Textes de contemporains (sélection)
Cass, Lewis, « Indians of North America », North American Review, vol. 22, 1826, p. 53-119.
Child, Lydia Maria, Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians (1824), Carolyn L. Karcher (éd.), New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Cole, Thomas, « Essay on the American scenery », American Monthly Magazine, vol. 1, janvier 1836, p. 1-12.
Dwight, Timothy, Travels in New England and New York (1821), Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
Heckewelder, John, History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States (1819), Philadelphie, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1990.
Irving, Washington, History, Tales and Sketches (Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. – Salmagundi – A History of New York – The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.), James W. Tuttleton (éd.), New York, Library of America, 1981.
Jackson, Andrew, First Annual Message to Congress (décembre 1829), consultable à partir du lien suivant : http://www.presidency.ucsp.edu/ws/?pid=29471
— , Second Annual Message to Congress (décembre 1830), consultable à partir du lien suivant : http://www.presidency.ucsp.edu/ws/?pid=29472
Ridge, John, « Essay on Cherokee civilization » (1826), in D. McQuade et al. (éd.), Harper Anthology of American Literature, New York, Harper and Row, 1987 p. 730-737.
Seaver, James E., A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was Taken by the Indians…, Canandaiga, J. D. Bemis & Co., 1824.
Scott, Walter, Waverley, Or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since (1814), Londres, Penguin Classics, 2010.
— , Guy Mannering ; Or the Astrologer (1815), Londres, Penguin Books, 2003.
— , Rob Roy (1817), Londres, Penguin Classics, 1995.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, Hope Leslie ; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827), Mary Kelley (éd.), New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Sur James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Charvat, William, « Cooper as professional author », New York History, vol. 35, octobre 1954, p. 496-511.
Clavel, Marcel, Fenimore Cooper : Sa Vie et son œuvre. La jeunesse (1789-1826), Aix-en-Provence, Imprimerie universitaire de Provence, 1938.
Cooper, Susan Fenimore, The Cooper Gallery, or Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, New York, J. Muller, 1865, p. 121-141.
— , « Small family memories », in James Fenimore Cooper (petit-fils) (éd.), Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper, 2 vol., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1922, p. 7-72
Franklin, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper : The Early Years, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007.
Grossman, James, James Fenimore Cooper : A Biographical and Critical Study (1949), Stanford University Press, 1967.
Railton, Stephen, Fenimore Cooper : A Study of His Life and Imagination, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978.
Taylor, Alan, William Cooper’s Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Réception et héritage de l’œuvre de Cooper
Barker, Martin et Sabin, Roger, The Lasting of the Mohicans : History of an American Myth, Jackson, University of Mississippi Press, 1995.
Beard, James F., « Afterword », The Last of the Mohicans, New York, New American Library, 1985.
Dekker, George, James Fenimore Cooper : The American Scott, New York, Barnes & Noble, 1967.
Dekker, George et Williams, John P. (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : The Critical Heritage (1973), Londres-New York, Routledge, 1997.
Franklin, Wayne, « Fathering the son : the cultural origins of James Fenimore Cooper », Resources for American Literature Study, vol. 27, no 2, 2001, p. 149-178.
Gardiner, W. H., « Cooper’s novels », North American Review, vol. 23, juillet 1826, p. 150-201.
McWilliams, John, « The Historical Contexts of The Last of the Mohicans », in James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, John McWilliams (éd.), Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 355-63.
Pease, Donald, « Visionary compacts and the Cold War consensus », in Visionary Compacts, American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, p. 3-48.
Rezek, Joseph, « The effects of provinciality in Cooper and Scott », Londres and the Making of Provincial Literature : Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850, Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, p. 113-148.
Slotkin, Richard, « Preface », The Last of the Mohicans, New York, Penguin Books, 1986.
Walker, Warren S. (éd.), Leatherstocking and the Critics, Chicago, Scott, Foresman & Company, 1965.
Wallace, James D., Early Cooper and His Audience, New York, Columbia University Press, 1986.
Regards de quelques écrivains sur l’œuvre de Cooper
Balzac, Honoré de, « Lettres sur la littérature, le théâtre et les arts », La Revue parisienne, article du 25 juillet 1840.
Lawrence D. H., « Studies in classic American literature. (V) Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking novels », English Review, vol. 28, juillet 1919, p. 204-219.
Twain, Mark, « Fenimore Cooper’s literary offenses », The North American Review, vol. 161, juillet 1895, p. 1-12.
— , « Cooper’s prose style » (1895), in Letters from the Earth, By Clemens, Bernard de Voto (éd.), New York, Harper and Row, 1962, p. 117-124.
Études générales sur l’œuvre de James Fenimore Cooper
Adams, Charles H., « The Guardian of the Law » : Authority and Identity in James Fenimore Cooper, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
Cabau, Jacques, La Prairie perdue : le roman américain (1966), Paris, Le Seuil, 1981 (notamment p. 18-24 : « La prairie romanesque »).
Clark, Robert (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : New Critical Essays, Londres-Totowa, Vision Press et Barnes & Noble, 1985.
Dekker, George, James Fenimore Cooper : The Novelist, Londres, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Fields, Wayne (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Kelly, William P., Plotting America’s Past : Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
Lewis, R. W. B., The American Adam : Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1955, p. 98-105.
McWilliams, John P., Jr., Political Justice in a Republic : James Fenimore Cooper’s America, Berkeley-Londres, University of California Press, 1972.
Macdougall, Hugh C., James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art 13, Oneonta, State University College of New York, 2002.
Mitchell, Lee Clark, « Leatherstocking, conduct books, and a moral code », in The Historical and Political Turn in Literary Studies. REAL : Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, vol. 11, 1995, p. 75-102.
Motley, Warren, The American Abraham : James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Parker, Hershel, « The writings of James Fenimore Cooper : an essay review », University of Mississippi Studies in English, n. s. 5, 1984-1987, p. 110-119.
Person, Leland S. (éd.), A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Porte, Joel, The Romance in America : Studies on Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and James, Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1969, p. 3-62.
Rans, Geoffrey, Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Novels : A Secular Reading, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Schleckel, Susan, « “In the land of his fathers” : Cooper, land, and the legitimation of American national identity », in W. M. Verhoeven (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : New Historical and Literary Contexts, Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 1993, p. 125-150.
Ryan, Susan M., « Fenimore Cooper, property, and the trials of national authorship », The Moral Economies of American Authorship : Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 25-54.
Spiller, Robert E., Fenimore Cooper : Critic of His Times (1931), New York, Russell and Russell, 1963.
Taylor, Alan, « Fenimore Cooper’s America », History Today, vol. 46, no 2, février 1996, p. 21-27.
Walker, Jeffrey (éd.), Leather-Stocking Redux ; or Old Tales, New Essays, New York, AMS Press, 2011.
Waples, Dorothy, The Whig Myth of James Fenimore Cooper, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1938.
Watts, Steven, « Visions ténébreuses d’un œil de verre : James Fenimore Cooper ou la mémoire trahie », in É. Marienstras et M.-J. Rossignol (dir.), Mémoire privée, mémoire collective dans l’Amérique pré-industrielle, Paris, Berg International, 1994, p. 191-210.
Zoellner, Robert H., « Conceptual ambivalence in Cooper’s Leatherstocking », American Literature, vol. 31, janvier 1960, p. 397-420.
Recueils consacrés à The Last of the Mohicans
Peck, H. Daniel (éd.), New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
McWilliams, John P., The Last of the Mohicans : Civil Savagery and Savage Civility, New York, Twayne Publishers / Maxwell Macmillan International, 1995.
Influences littéraires, sources
Constantinesco, Thomas, « The Last of the Mohicans : the literary contexts », REDHEJA, The Last of the Mohicans : A Narrative of 1757 in Context, 2016, URL : http://redehja.hypotheses.org/
Dekker, George, James Fenimore Cooper : The American Scott, New York, Barnes and Noble, 1967.
Frank, Armin Paul, « Writing literary independence : the case of Cooper : the “American Scott” and the un-Scottish American », Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 34, no 1, 1997, p. 41-70.
Franklin, Hillson, « The captivity narrative and The Last of the Mohicans : foundation and modification », James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, Papers from the 2011 Cooper Conference and Seminar. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/suny/2011suny-hillson.html
Friden, Georg, James Fenimore Cooper and Ossian, Upsala, The American Institute of the University of Upsala, 1949.
Gates, W. B., « Cooper’s indebtedness to Shakespeare », PMLA, vol. 9, no 67, 1952, p. 716-731.
McAleer, John, « Biblical analogy in the Leatherstocking Tales », Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 17, décembre 1962, p. 217-235.
McWilliams, John P., Jr, The American Epic, 1770-1869 : Transforming a Genre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 136-144.
Philbrick, Thomas, « The sources of Cooper’s knowledge of Fort William Henry », American Literature, vol. 36, mai 1964, p. 209-214.
Pitcher, E. W., « The “hapless babes” of the frontier : Ovid, “the history of Maria Kittle,” and The Last of the Mohicans », ANQ : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 13, no 3, été 2000, p. 33-37.
Richardson, Donna, « A man without a cross : Cooper’s romantic revision of Paradise Lost in The Last of the Mohicans », in S. Harthorn et H. Mac Dougall (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, Oneonta, State University of New York at Oneonta, p. 89-93 (consultable sur le site de la James Fenimore Cooper Society).
Ringe, Donald A., « The Last of the Mohicans as a Gothic novel », in George A. Test (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, Oneonta, State University College of New York at Oneonta, 1987, p. 41-53 (consultable sur le site de la James Fenimore Cooper Society).
— , The Pictorial Mode : Space & Time in the Art of Bryant, Irving & Cooper, Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
Steele, Ian K., « Cooper and Clio : the sources for “a narrative of 1757” », The Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 20, 1989, p. 121-35.
Todd, Emily B., « Establishing routes for fiction in the United States : Walter Scott’s novels and the early nineteenth-century American publishing industry », Book History, vol. 12, 2009, p. 100-128.
Vandiver, Edward P., « James Fenimore Cooper and Shakspere », Shakespeare Association Bulletin, vol. 15, avril 1940, p. 110-117.
Écritures de l’histoire
Contexte historique des Histoires de Bas-de-Cuir
Aron, Stephen, How the West Was Lost : The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Anderson, Fred, The War That Made America : A Short History of the French and Indian War, New York, Viking, 2005.
— , Crucible of War : The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Londres, Faber, 2000.
Bergland, Renée, The National Uncanny : Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, Hanover, University Press of New England, 2000.
Berkhofer, Robert, The White Man’s Indian : Images of the American Indian from Colombus to the Present, New York, Random House Inc., 1978.
Brantlinger, Patrick, Dark Vanishings : Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800- 1830, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2003.
Christophersen, Bill, « The Last of the Mohicans and the Missouri crisis », Early American Literature, vol. 46, no 2, 2011, 263-289.
Crouch, Christian, Nobility Lost : French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015.
Dain, Bruce, A Hideous Monster of the Mind : American Race Theory in the Early Republic, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2002.
Dippie Brian W., The Vanishing American : White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy, Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 1982.
Fowler, William, Jr., Empires at War : The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763, New York, Walker, 2004.
Havard, Gilles, Histoire des coureurs de bois, Amérique du Nord, 1600-1840, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2016.
Havard, Gilles et Augeron, Mickaël (dir.), Un Continent en partage. Cinq siècles de rencontres entre Amérindiens et Français, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2013.
Horsman, Reginald, « Scientific racism and the American Indian in the mid-nineteenth century », American Quarterly, vol. 27, no 2, 1975, p. 152-168.
Howe, Daniel Walker, What Hath God Wrought. The Transformation of America 1815-1848, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Jennings, Francis, Empire of Fortune : Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America, New York, Norton, 1988.
Maddox, Lucy, Removals : Nineteenth-Century American Literature and The Politics of Indian Affairs, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Marienstras, Elise, La Résistance Indienne aux États-Unis, xvie-xxie siècle, Paris, Gallimard, 2014 (1980).
Mielke, Laura, Moving Encounters : Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Onuf, Peter, Jefferson’s Empire : The Language of American Nationhood, Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Owens, Robert M., Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer : William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
Parkman, Francis, Montcalm and Wolfe, France and England in North America, tome II, New York, The Library of America, 1983 (1884).
Prucha, Francis Paul (éd.), Documents of United States Indian Policy, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Remini, Robert, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars, Londres, Penguin Books, 2002.
Rogin, Michael, Fathers and Children : Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian, New York, Knopf, 1975.
Ronda, James, « “We have a country” : race, geography and the Invention of Indian territory », Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 19, no 4, 1999, 739-55.
Romero, Lora, « Vanishing Americans : gender, empire, and new historicism », American Literature, vol. 63, no 3, 1991, 385-404.
Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne, « Mémorialistes de la prairie perdue : les naturalistes dans l’Ouest américain 1789-1830 », in É. Marienstras et M.-J. Rossignol (dir.), Mémoire privée, mémoire collective dans l’Amérique pré-industrielle, Paris, Berg International, 1994, p. 211-223.
— , Le Ferment nationaliste. Aux origines de la politique extérieure des États-Unis (1789-1812), Paris, Belin, 1997.
Steele, Ian K., Betrayals : Fort William Henry and the « Massacre », Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Taylor, Alan, American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800, Londres, Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 2002 (2001).
Van Ryumbeke, Bertrand, L’Amérique avant les États-Unis. Une histoire de l’Amérique anglaise – 1497-1776, Paris, Flammarion, 2013.
White, Richard, The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region 1650-1815, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991
Wulf, Naomi, « Biographie et histoire dans la jeune République », Transatlantica [En ligne], 1 | 2002. http://transatlantica.revues.org/392
La romance historique et l’histoire
Axelrad, Allan M., History and Utopia : A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, Norwood, Norwood Editions, 1978. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/utopia.html
Berthold, Dennis, « Romanticizing history, historicizing romance », Modern Philology, vol. 89, no 1, 1991, pp. 52-62.
Budick, Emily Miller, Fiction and Historical Consciousness : The American Romance Tradition. New Haven, Yale UP, 1989.
Butler, Michael D., « Narrative structure and historical process in The Last of the Mohicans », American Literature, vol. 48, mai 1976, p. 117-139.
Dekker, George, The American Historical Romance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Ferguson, Robert, « The last early republican text », in Reading the Early Republic, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 254-281
Fiedler, Leslie, « James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance », in Love and Death in the American Novel, New York, Scarborough House, 1982 (1960), chapitre 7.
Green, Martin ; « Cooper, nationalism and imperialism », Journal of American Studies, vol. 12, no 2, 1978, p. 161-168.
House, Kay Semour, « Cooper as Historian », in George A. Test (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, Papers from the 1986 Conference at State University College of New York, Oneonta and Cooperstown, State University College of New York 1986, p. 1-13.
Kelly, William P., « Inventing American history : Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales », CUNY English Forum 1, Saul N. Brody (éd.), New York, AMS, 1985, p. 359-379.
— , « “A man without a cross” : Mohicans and the cyclic course of empire », in Plotting America’s Past : Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales, op. cit., p. 45-84.
Pattee, Fred Lewis, « Critical studies in American literature. VI. The historical romance : Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans », Chautauquan, vol. 31, juin 1900, p. 287-292.
Pudaloff, Ross J., « Cooper’s genres and American problems », ELH, vol. 50, 1983, p. 711-727.
Sundahl, Daniel J., « Details and defects : historical peculiarities in The Last of the Mohicans », Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities, 1986, p. 33-46.
Swann, Charles, « James Fenimore Cooper : historical novelist », in R. Gray (éd.), American Fictions : New Readings, Londres, Vision, 1983, p. 15-37.
Woertendyke, Gretchen J., « Nation and regionalism in Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper », in Hemispheric Regionalism : Romance and the Geography of Genre, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 121-140.
Amérindiens / Ethnicité dans l’œuvre de Cooper
Allen, Dennis W., « “By all the truth of signs” : James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », Studies in American Fiction, vol. 9, automne 1981, p. 159-179.
Axelrad, Allan M., « The Last of the Mohicans, race mixing, and America’s destiny », in J. Walker (éd.), Leather-Stocking Redux ; or Old Tales, New Essays, New York, AMSPress, 2011, p. 33-56.
Barel-Moisan, Claire, « Les Indiens de Fenimore Cooper : lecture du Dernier des Mohicans », Romantisme, no 130, « Raciologiques », p. 55-65.
Brantlinger, Patrick, « Forgetting genocide : or, the last of The Last of the Mohicans », Cultural Studies, vol. 12, janvier 1998, p. 15-30.
Brown, Harry, « “The horrid alternative” : miscegenation in the frontier fomance », Journal of American Culture, vol. 24, automne-hiver 2001, p. 137-151.
Clark, Robert, « “The last of the Mohicans” : the last of the Iroquois », in History, Ideology and Myth in American Fiction. 1823-1852, New York, St Martin’s Press, 1984, p. 79-95.
Darnell, Donald, « Uncas as a hero : the “ubi sunt” formula in The Last of the Mohicans », American Literature, vol. 37, novembre 1965, p. 259-266.
Dean, Janet, « Stopping traffic : spectacles of romance and race in The Last of the Mohicans », in S. Strehle et M. Paniccia Carden (éd.), Doubled Plots : Romance and History, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2003, p. 45-66.
Derail-Imbert, Agnès, « The Last of the Mohicans ou l’incarnat de la nation », Revue française d’études américaines, vol. 105, septembre 2005, p. 27-43.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Boston, Beacon Press, 2014 [chapitre 6 : « The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s White Republic »].
French, David P., « James Fenimore Cooper and Fort William Henry », American Literature, vol. 32, mars 1960, p. 28-38.
Gardner, Jared, « Cooper’s vanishing American act », in Master Plot : Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, p. 81-124.
Gilmore, Paul, « Staging manhood, writing manhood : cultural authority and the Indian body », in The Genuine Article : Race, Mass Culture and American Literary Manhood, Duke University Press, 2001, p. 21-36.
Hall, Deirdre Dallas, « Remarkable particulars : David Gamut and the alchemy of race in The Last of the Mohicans », ESQ : A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 58, no 1, 2012, p. 36-70.
Hay, John, « Narratives of extinction : James Fenimore Cooper and the last man », Literature in the Early American Republic : Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries, vol. 6, mai 2014, p. 245-268.
Imbert, Michel, « Passing Indian Fashions (Cooper, Catlin) », in C. Giorcelli (éd.), Abito e identità, ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, vol. 7, 2007, p. 85-103.
Jackson, Cassandra, Barriers Between Us : Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004 [Introduction : « Race and nation in nineteenth-century interracial fictions » ; Chapitre 1 : « The Last of the Mohicans or the first of the mulattos ? Slavery and native American removal in Cooper’s American frontier »].
Johnson, Eric, « Uncas and the poetics of contact », in R. S. Grumet (éd.), Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996, p. 29-47.
Krauthammer, Anna, The Representation of the Savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, New York, Peter Lang, 2008.
Mann, Barbara Alice, « Sex and the single mixed-blood », in J. Walker (éd.), Leather-Stocking Redux ; or Old Tales, New Essays, New York, AMS Press, 2011, p. 57-85.
McFarland, Mitzi, « “Without a cross” : the carnivalization of sex, race, and culture in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans », ESQ : A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 48, no 4, 2002, p. 247-73.
McWilliams, John, « Red satan : Cooper and the American Indian epic », in R. Clark (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : New Critical Essays, New York, Barnes and Noble, 1984, p. 143-161.
Parker, Arthur C., « Sources and range of Cooper’s Indian lore », New York History, vol. 35, octobre 1954, p. 447-456.
Pitcher, Edward W., « Anticipated torments and Indian tortures in The Last of the Mohicans », ANQ : AQuarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 7, no 4, 1994, p. 215-219.
— , « The beaver and his cousin in Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », ANQ : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 8, no 2, printemps 1995, p. 11-16.
Sandborn, Geoffrey, Whipscars and Tattoos : The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick and the Maori, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Smith, Lindsey Claire, « Cross-cultural hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », American Transcendental Quarterly, septembre 2006, p. 527-552.
Tompkins, Jane P., « No apologies for the Iroquois : a new way to read the Leatherstocking novels », in Sensational Designs : The Cultural Work of American Fiction, New York, Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 94-121.
Wardrop, Stephanie, « Last of the red hot Mohicans : miscegenation in the popular American romance », MELUS, vol. 22, no 2, été 1997, p. 61-74.
La nature, la frontière, le paysage
Axelrad, Allan, « From mountain Gothic to forest Gothic and luminism : changing representations of landscape in the Leatherstocking tales and in American painting », in H.C. MacDougall et S. Harthorn (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, no 15, Oneonta, State University of New York at Oneonta, 2005, p. 7-20.
Benson, Maxine (éd.), From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : Major Stephen Long’s Expedition, 1819-1820, Golden, Fulcrum, 1988.
Billington, Ray Allen, et Ridge, Martin, Westward Expansion : A History of the American Frontier, 5e éd., New York, Macmillan, 1982.
Blakemore, Steven, « “Without a cross” : the cultural significance of the sublime and beautiful in Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 52, juin 1997, p. 27-57.
Brotherston, Gordon, « The Prairie and Cooper’s invention of the West », in C. Robert (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : New Critical Essays, Totowa-Londres, Vision Press et Barnes & Nobles, 1985, p. 162-186.
Cawelti, John G., « Cooper and the frontier myth and anti-myth », in W. M. Verhoeven (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : New Historical and Literary Contexts, Amsterdam-Atlanta, Éditions Rodopi, 1993, p. 151-160.
Franklin, Wayne, The New World of James Fenimore Cooper, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Goetzmann, William H., Exploration and Empire : The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West, Austin, Monticello Editions, Texas State Historical Association, 1993.
Kolodny, Annette, « Natty Bumppo as the American dream : the Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper », in Lay of the Land : Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1975, p. 89-115.
Marshall, Ian, « 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 G. A. Test (éd.), James Fenimore Cooper : His Country and His Art, Oneonta, State University of New York at Oneonta, 1991, p. 55-66.
Martin, Terence, « Leatherstocking and the Frontier : Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », in H. Galinsky (éd.), The Frontier in American History and Literature : Essays and Interpretations, Frankfurt, Verlag Mortiz Diesterweg, 1962, p. 49-64.
— , « Surviving on the Frontier : the doubled consciousness of Natty Bumppo », South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 65, automne 1976, p. 447-459.
Mazel, David, « Performing the wilderness in The Last of the Mohicans », in J. Tallmadge et H. Harrington (éd.), Reading under the Sign of Nature : New Essays in Ecocriticism, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2000, p. 101-115.
Miller, Angela, The Empire of the Eye : Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993.
Nevius, Blake, Cooper’s Landscapes : An Essay on the Picturesque Vision, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976.
Newman, Russell T., The Gentleman in the Garden : The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2003.
Noble, David, « Cooper, Leatherstocking and the death of the american adam », American Quarterly, vol. 16, automne 1964, p. 419-431.
— , The External Adam and the New World Garden ; The Central Myth in the American Novel since 1830, New York, George Brazillier, 1968, p. 1-47.
Pearce, Roy Harvey, Savagism and Civilization : A Study of the Indian and the American Mind, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965.
Peck, H. Daniel, A World by Itself : The Pastoral Moment in Cooper’s Fiction, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977.
— , « James Fenimore Cooper and the writers of the Frontier », in E. Elliot (éd.), Columbia Literary History of the United States, New York, Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 240-261.
Redekop, Ernest Henry, « Picturesque and pastoral : two views of Cooper’s landscapes », Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 8, automne 1977, p. 184-205.
Ringe, Donald, « Chiaroscuro as an artistic device in Cooper’s fiction », PMLA, vol. 78, septembre 1963, p. 349-357.
— , « James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole : an analogous technique », American Literature, vol. 30, 1958, p. 28-36.
Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration through Violence : The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860, Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1973 [chapitre 11 : « Society and solitude : the Frontier myth and romantic literature, 1795-1825 » ; chapitre 12 : « The fragmented Image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures, 1820-1850 » ; chapitre 13 : « “Man Without a Cross” : The Leatherstocking Myth, 1823-1841 »].
Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1950, p. 59-70.
Tanner, Tony, Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 1-24.
Valtiala, Kaarle-Juhani (Nalle), James Fenimore Cooper’s Landscapes in the Leather-Stocking Tales and other Forest Tales, Helsinki, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998.
Études de genre
Baym, Nina, « The women of Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales », American Quarterly, vol. 23, décembre 1971, p. 696-709.
— , « Putting women in their place : The Last of the Mohicans and other Indian stories », in Feminism and American Literary History : Essays, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Chapman, Mary, « “Happy shall he be, that taketh and dashest thy little one against the stones” : infanticide in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans », in S.C. Greenfield (éd.), Inventing Maternity : Politics, Science and Literature, 1650-1865, Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 238-251.
Coby, James L., « Crisis-dictated gender roles in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans », Explicator, vol. 72, no 1, janvier-mars 2014, p. 32-33.
Haberly, David T., « Women and Indians : The Last of the Mohicans and the captivity tradition », American Quarterly, vol. 28, automne 1976, p. 431-443.
Jordan, Cynthia S., Second Stories : The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1989 [chapitre 4 : « Two Sides to Every Story : Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans »]
Opfermann, Susanne, « Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick : A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender », in K.L. Kilcup (éd.), Soft Canons : American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1999, p. 27-47.
Rifkin, Mark, When did Indians Become Straight ? : Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011 [chapitre 1 : « Reproducing the Indian : Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans »].
Shields, Juliet, « Savage and Scott-ish masculinity in The Last of the Mohicans and The Prairie : James Fenimore Cooper and the diasporic origins of American identity », Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 64, no 2, septembre 2009, p. 137-162.
Wegener, Signe O., James Fenimore Cooper versus the Cult of Domesticity : Progressive Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels, Jefferson, McFarland and Co., 2005.
Weierman, Karen Woods, « Remembering and removing the Indian : Indian-White marriages in Sedgwick, Cooper, and Child », One Nation, One Blood : Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005, p. 62-98.
La langue de Cooper
Blakemore, Steven, « Strange tongues : Cooper’s fiction of language in The Last of the Mohicans », Early American Literature, vol. 19, printemps 1984, p. 21-41.
Boggs, Colleen G., « The blanched Atlantic : James Fenimore Cooper’s neutral ground », Transnationalism and American Literature : Literary Translation 1773-1892, New York, Routledge, 2007, p. 71-90.
Brunet, François, « Linguisters on the Prairie », RFEA, vol. 37, juillet 1988, « Les aventuriers du langage », p. 238-266.
Fassin, Éric, « Théorie du langage et idéologie dans La Prairie de James Fenimore Cooper (1827) », RFEA, vol. 37, juillet 1988, « Les aventuriers du langage », p. 267-282.
Fliegelman, Jay, Declaring Independence : Jefferson, Natural Language and the Culture of Performance, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1993.
Ganter, Granville, « Battles of rhetoric : oratory and identity in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans », James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, vol. 9, août 1997, p. 7-13.
Gustafson, Sandra M., Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
— , Eloquence is Power : Oratory and Performance in Early America, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Heller, Louis G., « Two Pequot names in American literature », American Speech, vol. 36, février 1961, p. 54-67.
Herndl, Diane Price, « Style and the sentimental gaze in The Last of the Mohicans », Narrative, vol. 9, no 3, octobre 2001, p. 259-82.
Imbert, Michel, « Le Dernier des Mohicans ou le ré-enchantement des signes », Études anglaises, vol. 68, no 3, 2015, p. 270-283.
Kalter, Susan, « The Last of the Mohicans as contemporary theory : James Fenimore Cooper’s philosophy of language », James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, vol. 11, août 1999, p. 1-14.
Kowaleski, Michael, Deadly Musings : Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993, p. 63-81.
Krumrey, Diane, « “Your ear shall drink no lie” : articulating the American voice in The Last of the Mohicans », Language and Literature, vol. 22, 1997, p. 45-61.
Poirier, Richard, A World Elsewhere : The Place of Style in American Literature, New York, Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 71-77.
Rosenwald, Lawrence, « The Last of the Mohicans and the languages of America », College English, vol. 60, no 1, janvier 1998, p. 9-30.
Notes
1 Cette bibliographie est largement inspirée de celle constituée par Ronan Ludot-Vlasak et Cécile Roudeau pour l’agrégation d’anglais. Elle est ici présentée sous une forme remaniée et mise à jour.
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