7 全套美国文学精心整理的各个时期作家作品简介James Fenimore Cooper

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American settlers
• 1823 • 1826 The Pioneers …………………….. 4 The Last of the Mohicans….. 2
探路者
• 1827 • 1840 • 1841
The Prairie Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu……………………… 5 The Pathfinder …………………..3 The Deerslayer …………………..1
Cooper’s Novels
• Create a myth about the formative period of the American nation
• The image of the Pioneers and the Indians
The Antithesis
• Civilization v.s. Nature (wilderness)
杀鹿者
最后的莫西干人
Leatherstocking Tales
• Natty Bumppo
• • • •
• The central figure in the novels • Goes by various names of
Leatherstocking Deerslayer Pathfinder Hawkeye
• Freedom v.s. Law
• Natural rights v.s. Legal rights
• Order v.s. Change • …
Cooper’s Style
• Highly imaginative • Good at inventing tales • Good at landscape description • Conservative
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The First important
American novelist
Leatherstocking Tales
开拓者 • Frontier Saga • a series of five novels about the frontier of 草原
• A real frontiersman gradually develops into a legendary and mythic figure • Represents the whole nation, struggling to be born, progressing from old age to rebirth and youth
• Characterization wooden and lacking in P robability • Language and use of dialect not authentic
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