The Deerslayer | Ideas for Group Discussions
While Cooper had great initial success with his frontier romances, his polemic and political novels quickly changed critical reaction from positive to negative attacks. Cooper himself commented that his books would be attractive mainly to young boys, and for a long time, this was the case. Today, with a revival of interest in the West as a cultural heritage as well as a fantasy that promises dreams of freedom and excitement, Cooper's works have received renewed sympathetic critical attention. A discussion of the features and the reasons for the attractiveness of his frontier novels for...
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