Oxford World's Classics: The Deerslayer PDF
by James Fenimore Cooper
Edited by H. Daniel Peck
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
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The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo.
Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D.
H. Lawrence said was perhaps `lovelier than any place created in language'. This novel, and the contemporaneous The Pathfinder, mark Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary.
Written during the period of Cooper's bitter legal battles with the Whig press, The Deerslayer reflects a retreat from his difficulties into a world of romance; but the novel also symbolically attacks Cooper's opponents and implicitly provides a critique of nineteenth-century American society. In the Introduction H. Daniel Peck offers an explanation for The Deerslayer's mysterious power over twentieth-century readers, showing how the novel's patterns of adventurous action dramatize issues of possession and loss.
This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:04/11/1999
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