The Deerslayer (Barnes & Noble Classics) - James Fenimore Cooper [327]
3. What would you say are the reasons for this novel’s once immense and still substantial popularity? Are any of its themes current?
4. The characters and setting in The Deerslayer are American, and in that sense the novel is, of course, American-as the novels of Charles Dickens are English. But is there something beyond the characters and setting-some worldview, some unconscious drive, some way of being and acting-that is particularly and exclusively American?
FOR FURTHER READING
Other Works by James Fenimore Cooper
Precaution (1820)
The Spy (1821)
The Pilot (1823)
The Pioneers (1823)
Lionel Lincoln (1825)
The Last of the Mohicans ( 1826)
The Prairie (1827)
The Red Rover (1827)
Notions of the Americans (1828)
The Wept ofWish-ton-Wish (1829)
The Water-Witch (1830)
The Bravo (1831)
The Heidenmauer (1832)
The Headsman (1833)
The Monikins (1835)
The American Democrat (1838)
Homeward Bound (1838)
Home as Found (1838)
The Pathfinder (1840)
Satanstoe (1845)
The Chainbearer (1845)
The Redskins (1846)
Bibliography and Reference
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Biography
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Letters, Correspondence, and a Memoir
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Literary Criticism
Clark, Robert. History, Ideology and Myth in American Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1984.
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