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Show 52 never was sems to have impaired the sale of his works. The Pioneers translated into German· in 1824:., and from that. time 'arranged that with-his publication·of his' works German publication. Part of. the in America and secret of England. Cooper's occur on Cooper simultaneously 1 German success'was the timing. Says Willard Thorp: The Europepfi enthusiasm,for Cooper struck Germany at a Her. liberal thinkers and writers very propitious ; were the Ic Ieon se t t Lette nt s and depressed by· pos t=Nape .chafed under the dominion of Prussia and Austria. Hope for.' a' unified ftherland was dead. By'1817 the great momsnt . , : . tide· of migration. to Ameri.ca had set in and the port of Liverpool. swarmed with Germans who were· seeking freedom in. the new ·world., To. those' who 'were' leaving Germany, Cooper's novels provided. the picture· of America which they wanted. For.' those· who remained beh Ind Cooper ••• offered consolation and SQ powe r fu l, escape.2 Cooper's impact was Franz Schubert wro te on to his. friend Germany that even. the Schobe r Ln November, dy Ing 1829, the week, before he·died: lWriting . . in .1937, Paul Hae r t L noted that "Not less. thaQ. thirty. German pub1ishers;have produced Leoopert7 works, some in their original text and language" but mos t; of them in.translation It is interesting and quite a' few in adapted and revised ed Lt Lene to note. that; during .this· time lbetween 1825 an_185l" when Cooper was pub l i.shed in Americ$ .a.nd Germany simultaneousizL an edition of Coepe'r Is 'Complete Works' was publihed by Johann D. SauerlMnder of Frankfurt It contained thirty-eight volumes: four more. than any of am-Ma.in. 'I the American er 'English ed Lt.Lons;" Paul Hae r t l "Cooper. in Germany, e Atne;rican-Germg_u· Review) III (June,., 1937), 18. , . . , 2Willard . Thorp, "Cooper Beyond America," in _ ed. Mary E. Gunningham (Coopertown, N.Y.: 533. Historical Associtiotl", 1954), p ........""__........_ Cooper, ARe-Appraisal, -NewYo'rk State .. |
