The Priority of Vision and Picturesque Description in Cooper's Novels

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2019.03.015

Abstract

Abstract: For a long time， the emphasis on the cultural and social significance of the novels by James Fenimore Cooper， who has been regarded as a builder of American Myth and advocator of American national consciousness， has overshadowed his artistic achievement as a writer. This paper intends to examine Cooper's primacy of vision and picturesque description of the American wilderness and the characters in the light of picturesque theory and ocularcentrism， and holds that it is the picturesque description of the American landscape that makes Cooper's writing unique for being used as sources to build national consciousness.

Key words: James Fenimore Cooper, picturesque, landscape, primacy of vision

CLC Number:

I106.4

MAO Ling-ying. The Priority of Vision and Picturesque Description in Cooper's Novels[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2019, 21(3): 325-330.

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