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Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper (1990, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-100887069053
ISBN-139780887069055
eBay Product ID (ePID)410811
Product Key Features
Book TitleTwo Admirals
Number of Pages511 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Political, Historical
Publication Year1990
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper
Book SeriesThe Writings of James Fenimore Cooper Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight32.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-012190
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"In outline, The Two Admirals...is as romantic as The Pilot or Red Rover...The details, however, are in large part solid and real, and events are so handled that they raise philosophical questions--the more interesting because Cooper keeps personally aloof and neither asks nor answers them directly--about the notion of legitimacy in government and the conventions of loyalty and obedience." -- James Grossman, James Fenimore Cooper (William Sloane Associates, The American Men of Letters Series, pp. 157-58).
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
Dewey DecimalFIC
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Illustrations Historical Introduction Preface [1842] Preface to The Two Admirals [1851] The Two Admirals Explanatory Notes Textual Commentary Note on the Manuscript Textual Notes Emendations Rejected Readings Word-Division
SynopsisAuthor of the first scholarly history of the United States Navy, James Fenimore Cooper had long hoped to commemorate the American Navy by representing its fleet in action. Since no such fleet existed in 1841, he reverted to the Jacobite War of 1745 when the great British and French fleets contested in the English Channel and the colonial and British fleets were one. Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly recalled his long friendship with Commodore William Branford Shubrick (much later, Rear Admiral Shubrick) in the story of the friendship between his two admirals--Oates and Bluewater--of the British Navy. The result is an intriguingly realistic romance., Author of the first scholarly history of the United States Navy, James Fenimore Cooper had long hoped to commemorate the American Navy by representing its fleet in action. Since no such fleet existed in 1841, he reverted to the Jacobite War of 1745 when the great British and French fleets contested in the English Channel and the colonial and British fleets were one. Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly recalled his long friendship with Commodore William Branford Shubrick (much later, Rear Admiral Shubrick) in the story of the friendship between his two admirals-Oates and Bluewater-of the British Navy. The result is an intriguingly realistic romance.
LC Classification NumberPS1418.T5 1990
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