Talk:Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
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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)
Multiple issues
editHi, 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)
Cardboard characterisations
editPlease 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)
Twain on R. L. Stevenson
editThe 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)