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- W4591640 abstract "One is often embarrassed by Fenimore Cooper's platitudes. That a motherless girl is morally vulnerable, that a legacy belongs to the rightful heir?such dicta may impede potentially sound plots. Yet if we wish to understand Cooper's work, we should account for his moralizing: he was a who devoted much of his writing to polemics, who considered art secondary to message, who wanted to make himself clearly understood. His most frequently recurring theme?that of collective self-preser? vation or eros?is largely neglected. The family's primary role, the desire to father a race, the sense of identity resulting from long habitation of a place?all were significant to Cooper himself. Starting with his in? volvement in the Otsego region during its infancy and adolescence and including his own responsibilities as a would-be patriarch, Fenimore Cooper came to utilize similar impulses in his fiction in defense of Ameri? can democracy, to criticize an egalitarian and fluid society and funda? mentally to exhort his readers' respect for lasting relationships. The theme of is multifold. Cooper himself had been heavily impressed with his own father, who devoted his adult life to the develop? ment of Otsego County and of his family's preeminence. The Judge prided himself on these public and domestic opportunities for paternal? ism. Likewise, Fenimore Cooper was a lifelong, avid family man as well as a zealous advocate of one's societal responsibilities. Certainly, his own role was mainly domestic although he aspired to the public role the Judge had enjoyed. It is not surprising that Cooper should write about families, for their social role was obviously significant to him and his era; moreover, domes? tic fiction was a well-established genre in the early nineteenth century. Sometimes, though, Cooper uses as more than a convenient situa tional frame. Why, for instance, are families in his novels rarely intact? Why do many of his plots evolve from the search for a relative, often the" @default.
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- W4591640 title "HOME AS CHERISHED: THE THEME OF FAMILY IN FENIMORE COOPER" @default.
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