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Author Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851, author.

Title The wing-and-wing, or, Le feu-follet : a tale / James Fenimore Cooper ; edited with historical introduction and explanatory notes by Lance Schachterle and Anna Scannavini
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The writings of James Fenimore Cooper
Contents Historical introduction -- Illustrations -- Preface [1842] -- Preface [1851] -- The Wing and Wing -- Explanatory notes -- Italian glossary -- Textual commentary -- Editorial and proofreading procedures -- Emandations -- Rejected readings -- Textual notes -- Word-divisions
Summary "What sets The Wing-And-Wing apart from Cooper's other maritime adventures is the setting: most of the action occurs in the genial Italian waters of the Bay of Naples and Gulf of Salerno, locations Cooper had visited in 1829-30 and later recalled as "the only region of the earth that I truly love." He combined the struggle for naval dominance just beginning between France and England with historical events occurring in the Kingdom of Naples, especially the role reluctantly played by Nelson, pressured by his lover Lady Hamilton, in the execution of the Neapolitan hero Admiral Caraccioli. The editors provide a historical introduction identifying Cooper's Italian sources as well as detailed explanatory notes to enable readers fully to appreciate the geographical and historical settings in the novel. This scholarly edition, the twenty-seventh in the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, presents an accurate text drawing upon both the first edition and a lightly revised authorial text from 1850. The editors provide a full scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and the edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Genre/Form Fiction
Historical fiction.
Sea stories.
Form Electronic book
Author Schachterle, Lance, editor
Scannavini, Anna, editor
ISBN 9781438474960
1438474962
Other Titles Wing-and-wing
Feu-follet