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- ↑ Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1861). "Introduction to The Headsman". external.oneonta.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ↑ MacDougall, Hugh (2013). "Cooper's The Headsman: What Have Swiss Executioners Got to Do with African-Americans?". James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Papers from the 2013 Cooper Conference and Seminar: 29–35.
- ↑ Franklin, Wayne (2017). "Republican Principles". James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 139–141. doi:10.12987/9780300229103-007. ISBN 9780300229103.
- 1 2 3 4 Denne, Constance Ayers (1974-01-01). "Cooper's Artistry in The Headsman". Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 29 (1): 77–92. doi:10.2307/2933407. JSTOR 2933407.
- ↑ Pudaloff, Ross J. (1983-01-01). "Cooper's Genres and American Problems". ELH. 50 (4): 711–727. doi:10.2307/2872924. JSTOR 2872924.
- ↑ Denne, Constance Ayers (July 1980). "Cooper's Use of Setting in the European Trilogy". 3rd Annual Cooper Seminar: 52–70.
- ↑ Palfrey, Thomas R. (1932-01-01). "Cooper and Balzac: "The Headsman"". Modern Philology. 29 (3): 335–341. JSTOR 433617.
