Note 31 — THE EARLY NOVELS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1821–1831)

Southern Literary Messenger, 1838:375, speaks of Lionel Lincoln’s popularity as unprecedented. “It was this production that created in Boston and throughout New England, a popularity for Mr. Cooper’s works, at one period so great, as to become among novel readers, almost a mania.” Cf. U. S. Literary Gazette I:340; North American Review 23:154.