James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is a 1842 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper, The novel includes a thematic interest in religiousity and faith. The novel also introduces metacriticism into Cooper`s sea fiction, as does The Sea Lions, unlike earlier novels which typically also focused on nautical and nationalist themes.