The PathfinderHarvard University Press, 1. 2. 2015 - Počet stran: 598 In 1831, James Fenimore Cooper told his publisher that he wanted to write a story set on Lake Ontario. The book was accepted, but with no hint that it would feature Natty Bumppo from the well-established Leather-Stocking Tales. The Pathfinder (1840) revisits Natty’s military service, extending a story begun in The Last of the Mohicans, and introduces the complications of love against the backdrop of the French and Indian War. Wayne Franklin’s introduction describes the personal and financial circumstances that led to Cooper’s resurrection of his most popular character, underscoring the author’s aim to offer Natty as a “Pathfinder” for a nation he feared had lost its moral bearings. |
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... once again must fight for the principles that have moved him in the two earlier parts of his story. In the end, The Prairie allows him only the chance to subside into nature. Cocking his head as if hearing and responding to some ...
... once it was safe for them to do so). Later trips through the Lowlands and Germany and a second stay in Switzerland were to round out the sampling of European sights. In the fall of 1833, by which time Cooper's political disillusionment ...
... once he got back to New York in November 1833, his political disillusionment had become so deep that it soon alienated him from members of the newly formed Whig party, some of them old associates. The rude homecoming prompted him to ...
... once he finally began work on The Pathfinder. The overland trip with which the novel opens, bringing Mabel Dunham and her uncle and Natty and his party down along (and on) the Oswego River to Ontario, copied Cooper's own. And the ...
... Once he hit on the idea of mixing forest and lake, thereby blending the two genres with which readers most clearly associated him—and genres only partly exemplified in his most recent books—the notion of bringing Natty back simply made ...