James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851)
员工晋升评语Life
1.Born into a rich family of New Jery, Cooper was one of the few American authors who did not have to worry about money.
2.He was nt to Yale at 14, but was expelled in his junior year becau of improper behavior. Among a ries of pranks, 角马交配one of them was to train a donkey to sit in a professor's chair.
3. Encouraged by his father, Cooper joined the Navy and rved on the ship, 1806-07.
4.He went and spent five years at a; then, while still in his early twenties, he inherited his father’s vast fortune and ttled down to a life of comfort and even luxury.送给你真诚的祝福
5.His cond book, The Spy, a novel about the American Revolution, proved to be an immen success.
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6.he started his writing career on a dare from his wife.
Theme means the unifying point or general idea of a literary work. It provides an answer to such question as “What is the work about?” each literary work carries its own theme or themes.
His works and themes
1. Social and Historical novels (revolutionary past):
The Spy 《间谍》(1821)
It is about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.
Satanstoe 《萨坦斯托》 (1845)
The Chainbearer 《持锁链者》
The Red Skins 《红色人》(1846)
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The Water Witch 《水巫》 (1830)
The Two Admirals 《两位海军上将》 (1842)
Lionel Lincoln 《莱那尔.林肯》(1825)
The Bravo 《亡命徒》 (1831)
The Headsman 《头人》 (1833)
The Ways of the Hour 《世风》 (1850)
2. Sea novels:
The Red Rover 《红色的海盗》（1827）
情话诗词Afloat and Ashore 《海上与岸上》 (1844)
Jack Tier 《杰克.梯耶尔》 (1848)
The Sea Lions 《海狮》 (1849)
The Pilot 《领航者》 (1824)
3. Frontier novels:
Leather-stocking Tales
4.Other works大于符号怎么输入
Notions of American 《美国人的思想》
Homeward Bound 《返乡路上》 (1838)
Home as Found 《故乡风貌》 (1838)
The Crater 《火山口》 (1847)
The Oak Openings 《橡树林间空地》(1848)
Writing style
1. His writing is powerful yet clumsy. He is good at inventing plots.
2. His style is dreadful, his characterization wooden(stiff) a
Contributions of Cooper
The creation of the famous Leatherstocking saga has cemented his position as our first great national novelist and his influence pervades American literature. In his thirty-two years (1820-1851) of authorship, Cooper produced twenty-nine other long works of fiction and fifteen books - enough to fill forty-eight volumes in the new definitive edition of his Works. Among his achievements:
Cooper Creates many “first” in the field of American novels
1.He was the first writer of a novels.
2.He was the first excellent writer of border novels.
3.He was the first writer of ries novels.
4.He was the first romantic writer with rationalism.
5.He was the first writer in Am. appreciated by many writers of different nationalities and different generations.世界读书日手抄报
6.He was a mythic writer and created a myth about the formative period of the Am.
Leatherstocking Tales is a ries of novels t in the early frontier period of American history.
The Deerslayer 猎鹿人 depicts Natty Bumppo's experiences as a young man. The events take place in the 1840s in the upstate New York, where Deerslayer is joined by his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, to rescue two frontiersmen.
The Last of the Mohicans
is t in the 1757 during the Seven Years' War between the French and the British. Hawkeye / Bumppo and his friends Chingachgook and Uncas with a group of English civilians are betrayed by their Indian guide Magua. Hawkeye revenges the death of his friend Uncas and an English lady, Cora, and kills Magua.
The Pathfinder
is also t during the war, and tells a story of betrayal and love. Jasper Western, a sailor is suspected of being disloyal to the English, is arrested to the despair of Mabel, who is in love with him. The real traitor is Muir - the lieutenant who had accud Jasper. He is killed by Arrowhead, a Tuscarora Indian.
The Pioneers
is t in 1793 in Otgo County in the recently ttled region of New York State. Natty Bumppo, now known as Leatherstocking, and his friend Oliver Edwards befriend Judge Temple and his daughter Elisabeth. Chingachgook dies in a forest fire in spite of Bumppo'
s efforts to save him. Oliver Edward's lost grandfather is found and Oliver and Elisabeth are betrothed at the end.
The Prairie
is t in 1804. Natty Bumppo meets a wagon train and helps it to evade an Indian raiding party. The travellers endure a prairie fire, a buffalo stampede, and capture by the Sioux. In the end of the tale Bumppo peacefully dies on the prairie, surrounded by his friends.” A valiant, a just, and a wi warrior, has gone on the path which will lead him to the blesd grounds of his people!" he said. "When the voice of the Wahcondah called him, he was ready to answer. Go, my children; remember the just chief of the Palefaces, and clear your own tracks from briers!"
