Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey Walker. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
Contents: Kay Seymour House -- Is Cooper Obsolete?; John McWilliams, -- The Pioneers: Stumps in Clearing the Classroom Forest; Allan M. Axelrad -- "The Shock of Recognition: Twain and Lawrence Read Cooper; Robert Daly -- From World To Word and Back: Coopers Now and Then; William P. Kelly -- Republican Fictions: Cooper and the Revolution; James A. Sappenfield -- Cooper as Experimental Novelist; Wayne Franklin -- James Fenimore Cooper: The Biographical Matrix; Lance Schachterle -- Cooper's Works in Print; Matthew Wynn Sivils -- "Yours, Truly, THE AUTHOR": Cooper's Leather-Stocking Prefaces; William Merrill Decker -- "Surely Cora Was Not Forgotten": Remembering Africa in the Leather-Stocking Tales; Barbara Alice Mann -- Fancy Girls: The Creole and the Quadroon in Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales; David Callahan -- Cooper's Androgynous Heroes; Leland S. Person -- Cooper's Otsego: Land to Rove for a Man's Life; Signe O. Wegener -- Reversing the Courtship Novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer; David Cody -- James Fenimore Cooper and the Imperial Fantasy; Gladys S. Lewis -- Fenimore Cooper's Cinematic Legacy: Indiana Jones, the Cartwrights, and Spock's Ears; Judith Richardson -- The "Littlepages" of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Local History in the Lower Hudson Valley; Nalle Valtiala -- Cooper's European Landscapes; Stephen Carl Arch -- Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offense: The "Homely" Truth of Cooper's satire in Home as Found
Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. 708 p. boards. Yale University Press, 2007.
A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper, edited and with an introduction by Leland S. Persons. 259 p., paper. Oxford University Press, 2007
Contents: Wayne Franklin -- James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851: A Brief Biography; John P. McWilliams -- "More than a Woman's Enterprise": Cooper's Revolutionary Heroines and the source of Liberty: J. Gerald Kennedy -- Cooper's Europe and His Quarrel with America; Dana D. Nelson -- Cooper's Leatherstocking Conversations: Identity, Friendship, and Democracy in the New Nation; Barbara Alice Mann -- Frace Traitor: Cooper, His Critics, and Nineteenth-Century Literary Politics; Illustrated Chronology; Jeffrey Walker -- Bibliographical Essay: Cooper and America.
Craig White, Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper. 209 p., boards. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Signe O. Wegener, James Fenimore Cooper versus the Cult of Domesticity: Progressive Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels. 191 p., paper. McFarland & Co., 2005.
James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore; or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, edited, with an Historical Introduction, by Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick, 2 vols., 583, 491 p., boards. New York: AMS Press, 2004.
Russell T. Newman, The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper. 107 p., boards. New York: Lexington Books, 2003.
Jean Soublin, "Bas de Cuir," in his Le Second Regard: Voyageurs et Barbares en Litterature. Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 2001.