Romanticism 2美国现实主义.ppt

2. James Fenimore Cooper  詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀(1789-1851)
novelist
1) Works.
The Spy 1821 《间谍》
The Pilot 1823 《水手》
Leatherstocking Tales
《皮袜子故事集》
Leatherstocking Tales
The Pioneers 1823 《拓荒者》………………… …………..4
The Last of the Mohicans 1826 《最后的莫希干人》…….2
The Prairie 1827 《大草原》……………………………….5
The Pathfinder 1840 《探路人》…………………………..3
The Deerslayer 1841 《杀鹿者》……………....................1
2) Life
Born into a rich land-holding family of New Jersey, Cooper was one of the new American authors who did not have to worry about money.
He was sent to Yale at 14, but was expelled in his junior year because of improper behavior.
He went and spent five years at sea; then, while still in his early twenties, he inherited his father’s vast fortune and settled down to a life fort and even luxury.
His second book, The Spy, a novel about the American Revolution, proved to be an immense ess.
3). His Skills
He is good at making plots.
All his novels are full of myths.
He had never been to the frontier and among the Indians and yet could write five huge epic books about them is an eloquent proof of the richness of his imagination.
He created the first Indians to appear in American fiction and probably the first group of noble savages.
He hit upon the native subject of frontier and wilderness, and helped to introduce the “Western” tradition into American literature.
The Last of Mohicans
The term "noble savage" expresses the concept of the natural man, unencumbered by either civilization or divine revelation.
The major characters:
Cora and Alice
Hawkeye
(3) Natty Bumppo represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in God’s world. To him and to Cooper, the wildness is good, pure, perfect, where there is freedom not tainted and fettered by any forms of human institutions.
Natty Bumppo is a veritable embodiment of human virtues like innocence, simplicity, honesty and generosity, a man born with an immaculate  [i’mækjulit] sense of good and evil and right and wrong. (纳蒂·