{"product_id":"gleanings-in-europe-james-fenimore-cooper-9780873954594","title":"Gleanings in Europe: England","description":"A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England \"unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any\" of the books \"published by an American on England.\" Another cited with approval the \"potent causticity\" with which a fellow reviewer \"develope[d] the gangrene of the author's mind in its most foul and diseased state.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Fenimore Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0873954599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873954594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs","brand":"James Fenimore Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457742319871,"sku":"9780873954594","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed0fcb62-7de7-473d-b1fe-7c5cbb24120a.jpg?v=1777400758","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gleanings-in-europe-james-fenimore-cooper-9780873954594","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}