16th International
James Fenimore Cooper Conference & Seminar
College at Oneonta
This year’s Conference & Seminar will focus on J.F. Cooper & Susan Cooper’s texts insofar as they deal with aesthetic, sociopolitical and other seminal issues in the early 19th Century. Other possible approaches could include such issues as Indian relocation, Romantic and post-Romantic conceptions of nature, the power of the popular press, the politics of publishing, utopias and alternative communities, popular religious movements, etc. For example, students in affiliated seminars will be analyzing sections of James Cooper’s The American Democrat, his writings on the Anti-Rent Wars, Cooperstown before and after his European sojourn, Susan Cooper’s essays and other writings on the suffragette question, et al. Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Wayne Franklin, whose long-awaited first volume of J. F. Cooper’s biography will be published by Yale UP in late spring 2007.
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