The Chainbearer: Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts

by James Fenimore Cooper, Lance Schachterle (Editor), James P. Elliott (Editor), Lance Schachterle (Introduction), Wesley T. Mott (Introduction)

Overview

Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438480657
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Series:	The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
Pages:	554
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lance Schachterle is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. James P. Elliott is Professor of English at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Historical Introduction

Illustrations

The Chainbearer

Explanatory Notes

Textual Commentary

Note on the Manuscript

Emendations

Rejected Readings

Textual Notes

Word-Division

Editorial Reviews

"In the present era of huge wealth disparity, this meticulously contextualized edition of the second volume of Cooper's Anti-Rent Movement trilogy (The Littlepage Manuscripts,1845–46) proves timely indeed … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

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