The Pathfinder: or the Inland SeaSUNY Press, 30. 6. 1980 - Počet stran: 569 With the publication of The Pathfinder in 1840, James Fenimore Cooper engaged in what he called the “hazardous experiment” of reviving one of his most popular characters who had been allowed to die in a previous novel. Natty Bumppo—who had appeared as Leatherstocking in The Pioneers, as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans, and who had died as the Trapper in The Prairie—appears again as the hero of The Pathfinder. Encouraged by his British publisher to write another tale of the American frontier, Cooper revived his character to take him to the shores of Lake Ontario, the Inland Sea, for an adventurous story of sailors, Indians, and hunters. Inspired by his own experiences as a mid-shipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, Cooper writes in his most picturesque fashion of the wilderness of the Great Lakes, the Thousand Islands, and Niagara. “Never did the art of writing tread more closely upon the art of the painter,” wrote Honoré de Balzac in his review of The Pathfinder. Cooper writes of places that were wilderness in his youth and that changed rapidly in his own lifetime as cities and commerce developed around the Great Lakes. Cooper’s attitude toward this development was ambivalent, as he indicated in his Preface: “That great results are intended to be produced by means of these wonderful changes, we firmly believe...but that they will prove to be of the precise results now so generally anticipated, in consulting the experience of the past, and taking the nature of man into account, the reflecting and intelligent may be permitted to doubt.” The Pathfinder remains a classic and entertaining account of the American wilderness and of aspects of human experience in the New World. |
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... River into Lake Ontario pages 482 , 483 PLATE VII . Page 99 of the manuscript of The Pathfinder . Cour- tesy Barrett Library , University of Virginia PLATE VIII . Page 213 of the manuscript of The Pathfinder . Cour- tesy Barrett Library ...
... River into Lake Ontario pages 482 , 483 PLATE VII . Page 99 of the manuscript of The Pathfinder . Cour- tesy Barrett Library , University of Virginia PLATE VIII . Page 213 of the manuscript of The Pathfinder . Cour- tesy Barrett Library ...
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... river , the cataract & c & c & c . . . . I have not absolutely decided on the name , though I have thought of the Inland Sea . " 3 Bentley wrote back on 24 July 1839 : " It is with much pleasure I hear that you have done me the favor to ...
... river , the cataract & c & c & c . . . . I have not absolutely decided on the name , though I have thought of the Inland Sea . " 3 Bentley wrote back on 24 July 1839 : " It is with much pleasure I hear that you have done me the favor to ...
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... River to see Niagara Falls — a spectacle that figures in The Pathfinder . He also had frequent oc- casions to cruise among the Thousand Islands . According to Susan Cooper , " the picturesque beauties of the region , the countless ...
... River to see Niagara Falls — a spectacle that figures in The Pathfinder . He also had frequent oc- casions to cruise among the Thousand Islands . According to Susan Cooper , " the picturesque beauties of the region , the countless ...
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... river and lake , where his genius revelled in its palmy days . ” 45 Likewise , the reviewer for Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine declares the work to be “ fully equal to any of Mr. Cooper's former productions , and superior to all other ...
... river and lake , where his genius revelled in its palmy days . ” 45 Likewise , the reviewer for Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine declares the work to be “ fully equal to any of Mr. Cooper's former productions , and superior to all other ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter II | 20 |
Chapter III | 34 |
Chapter IV | 47 |
Chapter V | 61 |
Chapter VI | 77 |
Chapter VII | 90 |
Chapter VIII | 107 |
Chapter XX | 314 |
Chapter XXI | 334 |
Chapter XXII | 345 |
Chapter XXIII | 362 |
Chapter XXIV | 384 |
Chapter XXV | 402 |
Chapter XXVI | 414 |
Chapter XXVII | 424 |
Chapter IX | 123 |
Chapter X | 136 |
Chapter XI | 152 |
Chapter XII | 172 |
Chapter XIII | 184 |
Chapter XIV | 205 |
Chapter XV | 219 |
Chapter XVI | 236 |
Chapter XVII | 249 |
Chapter XVIII | 262 |
Chapter XIX | 282 |
Chapter XXVIII | 437 |
Chapter XXIX | 450 |
Chapter XXX | 462 |
Textual Commentary | 473 |
Note on the Manuscript | 484 |
Textual Notes | 487 |
Emendations | 498 |
Rejected Readings | 549 |
WordDivision | 568 |
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