Cοurse paper Theme: James Fenimore Cooper – his life and work

Contents.

Introduction.	5
Main part.	9
Chapter I. An Analysis of the Life and Works of James Fenimore Cooper.	9
1.1. A Study of the Life of James Fenimore Cooper.	9
1.2. A study of the creative work of James Fenimore Cooper.	13
Chapter II. Analysis of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.	23
2.1. Analysis of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.	23
2.2. The Last of the Mohicans.	30
Conclusion.	33
References.	35

Introduction.
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) used to be an American writer of the first 1/2 of the nineteenth century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the seventeenth to the 19th centuries brought him reputation and fortune. He lived a good deal of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of existence in Cooperstown, New York, which was centered by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper grew to become a member of the Episcopal Church rapidly earlier than his demise and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, the place he was once a member of the Linonian Society. After a stint on a business voyage, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was once The Spy, a tale about espionage set in the course of the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also created American sea stories. His best-known works are 5 historic novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, acknowledged as the Leatherstocking Tales, which brought the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo. Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have been nicely received amongst naval historians, but they had been every so often criticized by using his contemporaries. Among his greater well-known works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often viewed as his masterpiece. Throughout his career, he published severa social, political, and historical works of fiction and non-fiction with the goal of countering European prejudices and nurturing an authentic American artwork and culture.¹
Faced with opposition from youthful writers and magazine serialization, and decrease costs for books resulting from new technologies, Cooper definitely wrote more in his final decade than in both of the previous two. Half of his thirty-two novels were written in the 1840s. They may additionally be grouped into three categories: Indian romances, maritime fiction, and political and social controversy—though the categories frequently overlap. The 1840s began with the ultimate two novels offering Natty Bumppo, both integral and reader successes: The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841). Wyandotte, his remaining novel set in the Revolutionary War, accompanied in 1843 and Oak Openings in 1848. The nautical works have been Mercedes of Castile (in which Columbus appears, 1840),The Two Admirals (British and French fleets in battle, 1842), Wing-And-Wing (a French privateer hostilities the British in 1799, 1842), Afloat and Ashore (two volumes exploring a young man growing up, 1844), Jack Tier (a vicious smuggler in the Mexican-American War, 1848), and The Sea Lions (rival sealers in the Antarctic, 1849). He also became from pure fiction to the mixture of artwork and controversy in which he done notoriety in the novels of the preceding decade. His Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy--Satanstoe (1845), The Chainbearer (1845), and The Redskins (1846)--dramatized troubles of land ownership in response to renters in the 1840s opposing the lengthy leases common in the old Dutch settlements in the Hudson Valley. He tried his hand with serialization with The Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief, first posted in Graham's Magazine in 1843, a satire on modern nouveau riche. In The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak (1847) he brought supernatural equipment to exhibit the decline of an ideal society in the South Seas when demagogues prevail. The Ways of the Hour, his remaining achieved novel, portrayed a mysterious and unbiased younger woman defending herself against criminal charges. Cooper spent the remaining years of his life again in Cooperstown. He died on September 14, 1851, the day before his 62nd birthday. He used to be buried in the Christ Episcopal Churchyard, where his father, William Cooper, was buried. Cooper's spouse Susan survived her husband solely by way of a few months and used to be buried via his facet at Cooperstown. Several standard writers, politicians, and different public figures honored Cooper's memory with a memorial in New York, six months after his death, in February 1852. Daniel Webster gave a speech to the gathering while Washington Irving served as a co-chairman, along with William Cullen Bryant, who additionally gave an tackle which did tons to restoration Cooper's broken reputation amongst American writers of the time.