Jack Tier

Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1848 by New York publisher Hurd and Houghton. 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]

References

1. McBride 85
2. 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
3. Rodríguez 144-145.

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