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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... mind ; he had wished to lay the scene of a tale on one of the great lakes , and to bring sailors and Indians into the same picture . " 7 It is interesting to speculate as to when Natty Bumppo be- came linked with this " nautico - lake ...
... mind ; he had wished to lay the scene of a tale on one of the great lakes , and to bring sailors and Indians into the same picture . " 7 It is interesting to speculate as to when Natty Bumppo be- came linked with this " nautico - lake ...
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... mind than some of the scenes and char- acters of The Pathfinder , though we have not read it for nine years . " 47 In a study of Cooper written in late 1846 or early 1847 , Rufus Griswold asserts that " Leather Stocking appears to more ...
... mind than some of the scenes and char- acters of The Pathfinder , though we have not read it for nine years . " 47 In a study of Cooper written in late 1846 or early 1847 , Rufus Griswold asserts that " Leather Stocking appears to more ...
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... mind , even in the obscurity of night , finds a parallel to that grandeur , which seems inseparable from images that the senses cannot compass . With feelings akin to this admi- ration and awe , the offspring of sublimity , were the ...
... mind , even in the obscurity of night , finds a parallel to that grandeur , which seems inseparable from images that the senses cannot compass . With feelings akin to this admi- ration and awe , the offspring of sublimity , were the ...
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... mind . That the long journey they had attempted to make through a broad belt of wilderness , was necessarily attended with danger , both uncle and niece well knew , though neither could at once determine whether the sign that others ...
... mind . That the long journey they had attempted to make through a broad belt of wilderness , was necessarily attended with danger , both uncle and niece well knew , though neither could at once determine whether the sign that others ...
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... mind was made up , and who thought no more need be said . " Ontario may be there , or , for that matter , it may be in my pocket . Well I suppose there will be room enough , when we reach it , to work our canoe . But , Ar- rowhead , if ...
... mind was made up , and who thought no more need be said . " Ontario may be there , or , for that matter , it may be in my pocket . Well I suppose there will be room enough , when we reach it , to work our canoe . But , Ar- rowhead , if ...
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