The Sea Lions

1849 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

Title page of 1856 edition

Author| James Fenimore Cooper
Genre| sea novel
Publisher| Stringer & Townsend (in two volumes)

Publication date

| 1849

The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in the Antarctic ice.[1] The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend.[2] Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842.[3]

Herman Melville reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine The Literary World.[2] Melville's praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, "Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea Lions; and even those who more for fashion’s sake than anything else, have of late joined in decrying our national novelist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest."[2]

Fragment of The Sea Lions manuscript (1848)[4]

## References

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1. ^ MacDougall, Hugh C. (April 26, 1997). James Fenimore Cooper and the Sea. Naval Enlisted Reserve Association. Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown, New York - via James Fenimore Cooper Society.
2. ^ a b c Melville, Herman (April 28, 1849). "Cooper's New Novel". The Literary World. 4: 370 - via Melvilliana.
3. ^ Gates, W. B. (December 1950). "Cooper's the Sea Lions and Wilkes' Narrative". PMLA. 65 (6). Modern Language Association: 1069–1075. doi:10.2307/459720. JSTOR 459720.
4. ^ "Fragment of Cooper's manuscript, The Sea Lions". americanantiquarian.org. 1849. Retrieved 2022-06-18.

## External links

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*   * The Sea Lions at Project Gutenberg

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Works by James Fenimore Cooper

Leatherstocking Tales novels|

* The Deerslayer
* The Last of the Mohicans
* The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea
* The Pioneers
* The Prairie

Other novels|

* Afloat and Ashore
* Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
* The Bravo
* The Chainbearer
* The Crater
* The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons
* The Heidenmauer
* Homeward Bound
* Home as Found
* Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef
* Lionel Lincoln
* Mercedes of Castile
* Miles Wallingford
* The Monikins
* The Oak Openings
* The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
* Precaution
* The Red Rover
* The Redskins
* Satanstoe
* The Sea Lions
* The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground
* The Two Admirals
* The Water-Witch
* The Ways of the Hour
* The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish
* The Wing-and-Wing
* Wyandotté

Short stories and plays|

* Tales for Fifteen
* No Steamboats
* Upside Down
* The Lake Gun

Non-fiction|

* The Chronicles of Cooperstown
* The Eclipse
* The History of the Navy of the United States of America
* Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers
* Ned Myers
* New York: or The Towns of Manhattan
* Notions of the Americans
* Old Ironsides
* Proceedings of the Naval Court-Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, &c.

Political writings|

* Letter to General Lafayette
* A Letter to His Countrymen
* The American Democrat

Travel writings|

* Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland
* Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
* A Residence in France
* Gleanings in Europe: France
* Gleanings in Europe: England
* Gleanings in Europe: Italy

* Commons
* Wikiquote
* Wikisource texts

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