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James Fenimore Cooper   /dʒeɪmz fˈɛnɪmˌɔr kˈupər/   Listen
James Fenimore Cooper

noun
1.
United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851).  Synonym: Cooper.





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... Indian. In the next two chapters, the hero kills four Indians. The English recognized this introduction of a new element of strangeness added to terror and gave Brown the credit of developing an "Americanized" Gothic. He disclosed to future writers of fiction, like James Fenimore Cooper (p. 125), a new mine of American materials. This romance has a second distinguishing characteristic, for Brown surpassed contemporary British novelists in taking his readers into the open air, which forms the stage setting for the adventures of Edgar Huntly. The hero of that story ...
— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck
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