Satanstoe

Satanstoe
AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper
Original titleSatanstoe; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts, a Tale of the Colony
LanguageEnglish
GenreRoman à clef
Published1845
Followed byThe Chainbearer; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 

Satanstoe is an 1845 novel by the early American novelist James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, sometimes listed with the alternate title The Family of Littlepage or The Littlepage Manuscripts, is the first of a three novel cycle, followed by The Chainbearer and The Redskins. The novel is a fictional autobiography which explores the 18th century colony of New York.[1]

References

  1. ^ Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1861). "Satamstoe (1845)". Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper. W.A. Townsend and Co. – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.

Further reading

  • Bier, Jesse (1968). "The Bisection of Cooper: Satanstoe as Prime Example". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 9 (4): 511–521. JSTOR 40753962.
  • Dondore, Dorothy (1940). "The Debt of Two Dyed-in-the-Wool Americans to Mrs. Grant's Memoirs: Cooper's Satanstoe and Paulding's the Dutchman's Fireside". American Literature. 12 (1): 52–58. doi:10.2307/2920388. JSTOR 2920388.
  • Lindstrum, June Laurel (1967). A comparison of two novels by James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers and Satanstoe. University of La Verne.
  • Pickering, James H. (1967). "Satanstoe: Cooper's Debt to William Dunlap". American Literature. 38 (4): 468–477. doi:10.2307/2923453. JSTOR 2923453.
  • Slater, Joseph (1951). "The Dutch Treat in Cooper's Satanstoe". American Speech. 26 (2): 153–154. doi:10.2307/453404. JSTOR 453404.
  • Wallace, James D. (1993). James D. Wallace (ed.). Race and Spiritualism in Satanstoe. James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Papers from the. State University of New York College at Oneonta. Oneonta, New York. pp. 112–119.
  • Wallace, James D. (2009). "Cooper and Slavery". Cooper Panel of the 1992 Conference of the American Literature Association in San Diego. Vol. 12.
  • West, Donna Lou (1971). "The Literary Mythologists, Cooper and Irving: Dutch Heroes in Satanstoe and Knickerbocker's History of New York. And, the Place of Narrative in the Institutions of Dog Trading and Horse Trading". University of Texas at Austin. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Satanstoe at Project Gutenberg