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Material[edit]

Just to be clear, a few passages from this article were lifted by me from the main James Fenimore Cooper article. Also, as the thumbnail at right demonstrates, Commons includes a printed edition of the essay...I'm not sure whether this might come in handy, but I wanted to make it known, in case another editor finds a way of working it into the article. Cheers!--Lemuellio (talk) 18:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issues[edit]

Hi, it's me again. It looks to me that the "This article has multiple issues" warning, currently floating at the top of the article, can now be removed:

Additional citations have been found, including several scholarly sources
As the sources suggest, the topic is a major comic essay in which one important American author criticizes another -- i.e., there don't seem to be any notability issues

I'll go ahead and remove the warning accordingly. It can be reinstated if need be.--Lemuellio (talk) 22:11, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cardboard characterisations[edit]

Please link or explain this term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:A0E0:FC0F:12E8:16BF (talk) 00:03, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Twain on R. L. Stevenson[edit]

The article states that "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is "characteristic of Twain's biting, derisive and highly satirical style of literary criticism, a form he also used to deride such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Robert Louis Stevenson." Its source is a 1948 article by a George W. Feinstein in Modern Language Notes about Twain's acerbic comments on other writers, including Goldsmith, Eliot, and Austen. However, Feinstein's article's only mention of Stevenson is a comment Twain made to Stevenson about Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Unless we can find a source in which Twain actually comments negatively on Stevenson's work, I don't think he should be mentioned. Craggmire (talk) 02:28, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]