Fenimor Cooper

(1789-1851)

- The author of historical romances about the life of American frontiersmen.

The novels are subdivided into 3 parts:

I. The novels about revolution “ The Spy”, “The Pilot”;

II. The series of novels about the adventures of the American forester-frontiersman. “Leather-Stocking Tales” (Nathaniel Bumppo)

ü “The Deerslayer” (Doers layer);

ü “The Last of the Mohicans” (Hawk-Eye);

ü “The Path finder” (Path finder);

ü “The Pioneer” (Leather Stocking);

ü “The Prairie” (Trapper).

III. Novels about author’s contemporary events and customs of people:

ü The Trilogy “Satan’s toe”;

ü “The Chain bearer”;

ü “The Red shins’.

The main themes:

ü Influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment;

ü Long-lasting American conflicts between nature and law; order and change, wilderness and civilization.

The style:

ü Created credible and identifiable American characters;

ü Exciting plots;

ü Careless and pompous language;

ü Rich description of the setting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804- 1864)

ü novelist, short-story writer, easiest;

ü A classic interpreter of the spiritual history of New England.

Works:

ü “The Scarlet Letter”

ü “The House of the Seven Gables”

Themes:

ü investigation of issues of moral and social responsibility in Puritan New England;

ü The problem of evil in people’s life.

Style:

- The language is figurative;

ü called his stories “allegories of the heart”;

ü effectively condense;

ü the use of symbols and allegory;

ü Interconnection of emotions of characters with their surroundings.

“The Scarlet Letter”

ü a somber romance of conscience and the tragic consequences of concealed guilt;

ü Is set in Puritan Boston during the mid-17^th century.