James Fenimore Cooper: Novelist of Manners - Donald G. Darnell - Google Books

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"In James Fenimore Cooper: Novelist of Manners, Donald Darnell examines manners in fifteen of Cooper's novels, showing the range and vitality of the subject from the author's first novel, Precaution (1820), to his last, The Ways of the Hour (1850). Darnell…