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The Deerslayer or the First Warpath

The Deerslayer or the First Warpath

Cooper, James Fenimore
Schachterle, Lance

Hardcover

Series: Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

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ISBN10: 0873953614
ISBN13: 9780873953610
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jan 9 1987
Pages: 682
Weight: 2.54
Height: 1.73 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence. Employing physical adventure and violence in a mythopoetic setting drawn largely from his own youthful experience, Cooper evokes the stages of Natty's initiation as a subtly allegorical medium for instilling permanent values, values he thought should pervade the conduct of the American press and all segments of American society. According to Edmund Wilson, this book--which D. H. Lawrence called the loveliest and best of the Leatherstocking series--contains description which owes its power, like Melville's description of the Pacific or one of Poe's pieces on landscape gardening, to an emotional content which has charged the object and transformed it into a symbol. And the action has a reality which we recognize and accept as we read: the reality of a dream full of danger. -- The Shock of Recognition

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