James Fenimore Cooper

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James Fenimore Cooper

• Life
  • his father was a member of Congress, a judge;established the community of Cooperstown.
  • 1789-1851 James Fenimore Cooper was an Ameican writer.
  • In 1789 He borned in New Jersey,(the year the Constitution was adopted)
  • In 1803, he entered Yale University, but expelled for breaking school rules.
  • Since 1806,he worked as a sailor on a merchantship.
  • From 1808,he served three years in the United States Navy.
  • In 1810,he was married.
  • In 1811, Cooper retired from the Navy.
  • At the age of thirty, Cooper bagan his literary career on a dare.(a challenge from his wife)
  • From 1826 to 1833, he went to Europe for investigation and served as the American consul in Lyon, France.
• Achievements
  • The first successful American historical romance in the vein of Sir Walter Scott(The Spy)
  • The first sea novel (The Pilot)
  • The first attempt at a fully researched historical novel (Lionel Lincoln, 1825)
  • The first full-scale History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839)
  • The first American international novel of manners (Homeward Bound and Home asFound, 1838)
  • The first trilogy in American fiction (Satanstoe,1845; The Chainbearer, 1845; and The Redskins,1846)
  • The first and only five-volume epic romance to carry its mythic hero-Natty Bumppo- from youth to old age.
  • The first important American novelist
• Writing style
  • Major Themes in Cooper's Writing
    • The American Society
    • The American History
    • The Backwoods-Frontier —The Sea
  • Features
    • powerful, yet clumsy and dreadful use of dialect,
    • but not authentic romantic, adventurous, dramatic
    • filled with action-packed plots and vivid portray of American life in frontier and wilderness.
    • to introduce the "Western"tradition into American literature.
• Three kinds of novels
  • the revolutionary historical novels.
  • The Spy(1821)
  • a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.
  • the sea adventure tale
  • the best sea romance: The Pilot(1823)
  • Cooper's knowledge of the sea rested on his earlier three years'service as a midshipman.
  • in 1839, he wrote the first official history of the U.S. Navy.
  • the frontier saga
  • The Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841)
• Another Works
  • The Deerslayer
  • The Pathfinder
  • The Pioneers
  • The Prairie
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    • The story of the destruction of the entire Mohican tribe during the war between Britain and France for control of the colony.
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