The Pathfinder: or the Inland SeaState University of New York 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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... 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 ... Pathfinder , or The Inland Sea This One 1RH4-92Z The Pathfinder ,
... 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 ... Pathfinder , or The Inland Sea This One 1RH4-92Z The Pathfinder ,
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... Pathfinder . He also had frequent oc- casions to cruise among the Thousand Islands . According to Susan Cooper ... Pathfinder is printed - The second is not yet written . " 12 In a letter written the day before to his British publisher ...
... Pathfinder . He also had frequent oc- casions to cruise among the Thousand Islands . According to Susan Cooper ... Pathfinder is printed - The second is not yet written . " 12 In a letter written the day before to his British publisher ...
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... Pathfinder , printed , and the original manuscript . I send the latter at your request , but of course you will take the printed sheets as the guide . " 18 Cooper then re- turned to Cooperstown , whence he wrote James Ogden that " Lea ...
... Pathfinder , printed , and the original manuscript . I send the latter at your request , but of course you will take the printed sheets as the guide . " 18 Cooper then re- turned to Cooperstown , whence he wrote James Ogden that " Lea ...
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... Pathfinder . " 28 Cooper's estimate of the quality of The Pathfinder was shared by three distinguished American literati , Francis Parkman , Wil- liam Cullen Bryant , and Washington Irving . In his review of the Putnam edition of The ...
... Pathfinder . " 28 Cooper's estimate of the quality of The Pathfinder was shared by three distinguished American literati , Francis Parkman , Wil- liam Cullen Bryant , and Washington Irving . In his review of the Putnam edition of The ...
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... Pathfinder ] is still as fresh as it was before . When reading Cooper we believe we are breathing in the forest scent that wafts across the lake . " Further , a brief critical note in the Bibliothek der neuesten Weltkunde of 1841 says ...
... Pathfinder ] is still as fresh as it was before . When reading Cooper we believe we are breathing in the forest scent that wafts across the lake . " Further , a brief critical note in the Bibliothek der neuesten Weltkunde of 1841 says ...
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