Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (2 vols., 444 pp. & 420 pp.)-edited by James Franklin Beard-Belknap Press of Harvard University...
...first American novelist to enjoy literary success in Europe was an ex-naval officer from upstate New York named James Fenimore Cooper. His father, a rich landowner, founded Cooperstown, N.Y., where Abner Doubleday was to invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale...
...Cooper's letters and journals deal largely with the seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty...
...familiar "Innocents Abroad" theme. The other is Cooper's occasional misunderstanding of his own achievement. Most of his 32 novels were adventure stories about Indians and trappers or about the sea. But he also produced a handful of society novels, beginning with his first book, Precaution, written in 1820 on a dare by his wife, and there were times when Cooper seemed to regard these as his most exciting work. Though his own Natty Bumppo-the Deerslayer-eventually slew this illusion, Cooper could write: "Europe itself is a Romance, while all America is a matter of fact, humdrum, common...
...Humpty Dumpty that plummets in this virtually guaranteed bestseller (Literary Guild selection for June; movie rights sold to Gary Cooper for $85,000) is Trumpet, a magazine suspiciously li late Collier's, on which Theodore White served as a senior writer. Unfortunately...