LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS – Complete Trilogy: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins
A Multigenerational Saga of Revolution, Land Rights, and Anti-Rent ConflictBy James Fenimore Cooper
Length74h 7m
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James Fenimore Cooper's Littlepage Manuscripts—comprising Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, and The Redskins—offers a multigenerational historical romance centered on a New York landholding family and the contested meanings of property, inheritance, and social order. Moving from the colonial era and the French and Indian War through the Revolution's aftermath to the nineteenth-century anti-rent agitation, the trilogy combines adventure, romance, genealogical memory, and political debate. Its manuscript-like framing and retrospective narration invoke the authority—and expose the partiality—of historical testimony. Cooper's vivid landscapes, formal dialogue, and dramatized legal and economic conflicts place the work within the tradition of American historical fiction while revealing its anxieties about democratic change and agrarian hierarchy. Cooper (1789–1851), a major early American novelist and the author of the Leatherstocking Tales, wrote during a period when the United States was defining its national literature and disputing the legitimacy of inherited privilege. His experiences as a landowner in New York, together with his longstanding interest in frontier history, maritime society, and property rights, informed the trilogy's sustained concern with political memory. The Littlepage perspective also reflects Cooper's increasingly conservative criticism of populist reform, especially the anti-rent movement that challenged patroon-like land contracts. This complete trilogy is recommended to readers interested in American literary history, historical fiction, and the cultural origins of debates over land and citizenship. It rewards attentive reading for its layered narration, regional detail, and provocative ideological tensions, even where Cooper's sympathies are unmistakably partisan.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length74 hrs 7 mins
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Publish dateJul 5, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Essential Writings of James Willard Schultz
26Chapter XX
2Introduction:: DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE, GENIUS, AND WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by W. C. Bryant
27Chapter XXI
3DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE, GENIUS, AND WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by W. C. Bryant
28Chapter XXII
4The Littlepage Manuscripts:
29Chapter XXIII
5SATANSTOE: A Tale of the Colony
30Chapter XXIV
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6Preface
31Chapter XXV
7Chapter I
32Chapter XXVI
8Chapter II
33Chapter XXVII
9Chapter III
34Chapter XXVIII
10Chapter IV
35Chapter XXIX
11Chapter V
36Chapter XXX
12Chapter VI
37THE CHAINBEARER
13Chapter VII
38Preface
14Chapter VIII
39Chapter I
15Chapter IX
40Chapter II
16Chapter X
41Chapter III
17Chapter XI
42Chapter IV
18Chapter XII
43Chapter V
19Chapter XIII
44Chapter VI
20Chapter XIV
45Chapter VII
21Chapter XV
46Chapter VIII
22Chapter XVI
47Chapter IX
23Chapter XVII
48Chapter X
24Chapter XVIII
49Chapter XI
25Chapter XIX
50Chapter XII
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