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Tag Archives: James Fenimore Cooper
the secret agent: aesthetic of violence
…It was the Second World War that gave the secret agent one of his most significant new traits since James Fenimore Cooper’s day when he wrote The Spy: the James Bond look, the look of violence and all its various … Continue reading
secret agent: great game ethos
The cult of the secret agent. Despit the bling and action, the secret agent poses a menace to the open society… …The Great Game ethos of the professionals was reflected in the spy novels and a little later in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Colonel Alfred Redl, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, James Fenimore Cooper, John Buchan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Dreyfus Affair, William Le Queux
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spy catchers and butterfly nets
…Whether the Great Game spirit filtered from the colonies into the metropolitan headquarters of the major European spy services, or whether it had roots at home as well, it became a dominant trait of the secret service mind in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, Hannah Arendt, James Fenimore Cooper, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael dunn actor, Michael Garrison, Robert Conrad, Ross Martin actor, Rudyard Kipling
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secret agent cult: balzac undercover
…It was Balzac finally, who put his unerring finger on one of the basic motivations of the secret agent in every age, one of the essential sources of his imaginative appeal: “The trade of a spy is a very fine … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Pinkerton, Balzac, Honore de Balzac, James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper The Spy, John Lukacs, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Roger Caillois literary sociologist, Rose Greenhow spy, Wilhelm Stieber
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the spy: harvey birch
James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy with his protagonist Harvey Birch was the authentic ancestor of the modern espionage novel. Cooper drew no veil over the sordid aspects of espionage work. … …It is because Harvey Birch’s heroism has to be … Continue reading
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Tagged General "Wild Bill" Donovan OSS, General Donovan OSS, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, Harvey Birch The Spy, James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper The Spy, John Le Carre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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spy figures:the harvey birch society
The cult of the secret agent… …And it once again was an American writer, James Fenimore Cooper, who first endowed the spy figure with an intriguing aura of romance… Cooper’s novel, The Spy, published in 1821, and said to have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.L. Dominique writer, Hannah Adams writer, Ian Fleming James Bond, James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper The Spy, John Jay, John Le Carre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Spy Harvey Birch
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cult of the spy: aura of romance
…Spies and secret agents have, of course, been used throughout history, and individual spies have sometimes been ennobled or otherwise honored for their work. But the spy’s profession has almost always and everywhere been regarded with contempt. “Espionage is never … Continue reading
tradition of the quest
The atmosphere conjured up by J.D. Salinger inevitably recalls the era of nineteenth-century romanticism; then, too, the promise of utopia disappeared in blood, leaving the younger generation disillusioned and ready to escape into the personal search for truth and beauty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Arthur Heiserman, Byron romantic poet, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James ameron, James Fenimore Cooper, Janet Malcolm, John Lennon murder, Kenneth Slawenski, Lord Byron greece, Mel Gibson, Naomi Klein, Paul Levine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen J. Whitfield, Taxi Driver movie, William Weigand
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kicking a rusty can down the road
Rusty. Shopworn. Used. There is something powerful in the American psyche that seeks to create the idea of a bygone time when life moved slower. Relive the Oregon Trail and be an ocular witness to the Last of the Mohicans. … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Bierstadt, DCC Crafts, decorative painting, James Fenimore Cooper, john ford director, John Wayne, Kraft Klub Home Kreation, Last of the Mohicans, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, thomas moran
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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”
Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Asha Sahni, Augustine Birrell, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Coleman O. Parsons, David Wilkie, Dickens, Edgar Johnson, Emily Bronte, Eugene Delacroix, Frank R. Shaw, George Cruickshank, George Eliot, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Ian Ousby, James Fenimore Cooper, James Heath, James Saxon, Jane Austen, John Gibson Lockhart, Lockhart, Marie Fletcher, Philip Coppens, Philip V. Allingham, Robert Cadell, Samuel Johnson, Sir David Wilkie, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Keeping, T.S. Eliot, Thackeray, William Hazlitt
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