Jack Tier

{{Short description|Novel by James Fenimore Cooper}} {{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''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.<ref name = McBride85>McBride 85</ref><ref name = Langley>{{cite journal| title = Images of the Sailor in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper| first = Harold D.| last = Langley| journal = The American Neptune| volume = 57| number = 4| date = Fall 1997| pages = 359–370| url = http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/other/1997other-langley.html| access-date = 2012-12-06| archive-date = 2016-12-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161216085357/http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/other/1997other-langley.html| url-status = dead}} Republished on the James Fenimore Cooper Society Website</ref>

The novel was first published serially in a magazine under the title ''Rose Budd'' in 1846.<ref name = Langley/> 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."<ref name = Rodriguez144-145>Rodríguez 144-145.</ref>

Garden Key Light on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas was used as the setting for the novel.<ref name="Reid">{{cite book|last1=Reid|first1=Thomas|title=America's Fortress|year=2006|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville|isbn=9780813030197|page=13}}</ref>

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===Works cited=== *{{cite book| title = The Colonizer Abroad: American Writers on Foreign Soil, 1846-1912| series = Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series| first = Christopher Mark | last = McBride| publisher = Psychology Press| year = 2004| isbn = 9780415970624| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rQRyAU8LXEAC&pg=PP1}} *{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0CLGyXNM4WwC| title =The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity| first = Jaime Javier| last = Rodríguez| publisher = University of Texas Press| year = 2010| isbn =9780292722453}}

==External links== * {{Gutenberg book|4796}}

Category:Novels by James Fenimore Cooper Category:1848 American novels Category:Novels set during the Mexican–American War Category:Novels set in Florida Category:Novels set on islands