Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Historical Introduction -- Composition -- Publishing Arrangements -- Reception (WTM) -- The Anti-Rent Controversy (JPM) -- The Origin of Anti-Rent -- Land Title and Post-Revolutionary Prosperity -- Notes -- Illustrations -- The Chainbearer -- Preface. -- Chapter I. -- Chapter II. -- Chapter III. -- Chapter IV. -- Chapter V. -- Chapter VI. -- Chapter VII. -- Chapter VIII. -- Chapter IX. -- Chapter X. -- Chapter XI. -- Chapter XII. -- Chapter XIII. -- Chapter XIV. -- Chapter XV. -- Chapter XVI. -- Chapter XVII. -- Chapter XVIII. -- Chapter XIX. -- Chapter XX. -- Chapter XXI. -- Chapter XXII. -- Chapter XXIII. -- Chapter XXIV. -- Chapter XXV. -- Chapter XXVI. -- Chapter XXVII. -- Chapter XXVIII. -- Chapter XXIX. -- Chapter XXX. -- Explanatory Notes -- Textual Commentary -- 1. The holograph manuscript as copy-text -- 2. The first printed text (A), published by Burgess, Stringer and Co., on 21 or 22 November 1845 -- 3. The first British edition, published by Richard Bentley, on 19 November 1845 -- 4. Foreign editions -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Note on the Manuscript -- Notes -- Emendations -- Rejected Readings -- Textual Notes -- End-Line Word-Division in the Holograph.
Verlag:
State University of New York Press, Albany
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.