The Monikins
1835 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable, was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the Leatherstocking Tales, The Prairie and The Pathfinder.[1] The critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.[1] The novel is a satire, narrated by the main character, the English Sir John Goldencalf. Goldencalf and the American captain Noah Poke travel on a series of humorous adventures to an Antarctic archipelago inhabited by a race of civilized monkeys.[2]
The novel is not very popular with Cooper's readers.[2] A contemporary critic of the novel in The Knickerbocker described it with great disappointment.[3]
References
- ^ a b Starobin, Christina (1991). George A. Test (ed.). The Monikins. James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art (No. 8). State University of New York College – Oneonta and Cooperstown. pp. 108–123 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.
- ^ a b Michaelsen, Scott (Autumn 1992). "Cooper's Monikins: Contracts, Construction, and Chaos" (PDF). Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. 48 (3): 1–26. doi:10.1353/arq.1992.0015. S2CID 161086612.
- ^ Washington Irving, ed. (1853). "Literary Notices: The Monikins". The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine: 152–153 – via Google Books.
External links
- The Monikins at Project Gutenberg
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Works by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Deerslayer
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea
- The Pioneers
- The Prairie
- Afloat and Ashore
- Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
- The Bravo
- The Chainbearer
- The Crater
- The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons
- The Heidenmauer
- Homeward Bound
- Home as Found
- Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef
- Lionel Lincoln
- Mercedes of Castile
- Miles Wallingford
- The Monikins
- The Oak Openings
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
- Precaution
- The Red Rover
- The Redskins
- Satanstoe
- The Sea Lions
- The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground
- The Two Admirals
- The Water-Witch
- The Ways of the Hour
- The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish
- The Wing-and-Wing
- Wyandotté
- Tales for Fifteen
- No Steamboats
- Upside Down
- The Lake Gun
- The Chronicles of Cooperstown
- The Eclipse
- The History of the Navy of the United States of America
- Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers
- Ned Myers
- New York: or The Towns of Manhattan
- Notions of the Americans
- Old Ironsides
- Proceedings of the Naval Court-Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, &c.
- Letter to General Lafayette
- A Letter to His Countrymen
- The American Democrat
- Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland
- Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
- A Residence in France
- Gleanings in Europe: France
- Gleanings in Europe: England
- Gleanings in Europe: Italy
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