Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843.[1] The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief.[2]
After the initial publication in Graham's Magazine the novel was published by several other magazines, including Brother Jonathan.[1] The novel was published in whole in 1843 by Cooper's London publisher Richard Bentley under a separate title, The French Governess; or, The Embroidered Handkerchief.[1] In 1845 a German publisher also published the work in full.[1]
Themes
Critic Thomas Bender describes the whole novel as devoted "to the subject of the evils of selfishly attempting to achieve higher place".[3] The city of New York, in this context, represent the evils of "struggle for social status" and this becomes the model for the woes and disorder caused by this struggle.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d MacDougall, Hugh C. "Transcriber's Preface to Autobiography of a Handkerchief" – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.
- ^ Axelrad, Allen M. (July 1995). Hugh C. MacDougall (ed.). "Aristocracy forsooth!...the Blackguard is the Aristocrat": James Fenimore Cooper on Congress and Capitalism. 10th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art. State University of New York College at Oneonta. pp. 7–16.
- ^ a b Bender, Thomas (April 1970). "James Fenimore Cooper and the City". New York History. LI (3): 287–305 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.
External links
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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