Jack Tier
Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1848 by New York publisher Burgess, Stringer & Co. Set during the Mexican–American War, the novel relates a twenty-year homosocial relationship verging on the homoerotic between a sailor and the captain of the boat. But by the end of the novel the sailor is the captain's wife, transforming the story into one of heterosexual love and passion.[1][2]
The novel was first published serially in a magazine under the title Rose Budd in 1846.[2] When commenting on the novel in the context of other novels about the Mexican-American War, critic Jaime Javier Rodríguez describes the novel as "an obscure work not always found in library stacks [thus it] remains largely unread but it too deserves attention."[3]
Garden Key Light on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas was used as the setting for the novel.[4]
References
- ^ McBride 85
- ^ a b Langley, Harold D. (Fall 1997). "Images of the Sailor in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper". The American Neptune. 57 (4): 359–370. Republished on the James Fenimore Cooper Society Website
- ^ Rodríguez 144-145.
- ^ Reid, Thomas (2006). America's Fortress. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p. 13. ISBN 9780813030197.
Works cited
- McBride, Christopher Mark (2004). The Colonizer Abroad: American Writers on Foreign Soil, 1846-1912. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415970624.
- Rodríguez, Jaime Javier (2010). The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292722453.
External links
- Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef at Project Gutenberg
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