Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
American literature has always been immigrant.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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