James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (1789a1851) invented the key forms of American fictionathe Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twainawho felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his aliterary offenses.a His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooperas fictions traced native losses to their economic sources. Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooperas life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooperas life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooperas life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.It was all ;cene in The Pilot between the American marine, Lieutenant Manual, and tish veteran, Captain Burroughcliffe, ... II2agt; 3:29~ 3Ad)- Perhaps this lg bout and the one at Rouillarda#39;s in Boston with Shubrick gave rise to the ; rumor voiced byanbsp;...
| Title | : | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Author | : | Wayne Franklin |
| Publisher | : | Yale University Press - 2008-10-01 |
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