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Page 58
... Cooper assigned to his own generation was the role of the child . There should be no surprise about the fact that the only time in which adults in large numbers read Cooper's romances was his own , but that children read them avidly at ...
... Cooper assigned to his own generation was the role of the child . There should be no surprise about the fact that the only time in which adults in large numbers read Cooper's romances was his own , but that children read them avidly at ...
Page 74
... Cooper , personal disobedience is far worse than the political disobedience that leads to it in Colonel Howard's analogy . When his son is disrespect- ful during the Revolution , a character in another Cooper novel immediately makes the ...
... Cooper , personal disobedience is far worse than the political disobedience that leads to it in Colonel Howard's analogy . When his son is disrespect- ful during the Revolution , a character in another Cooper novel immediately makes the ...
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... Cooper's creation was complete : once they knew that such a world existed would American romantics be satisfied to ... Cooper was not by any means the only romantic artist to leave his audience with such questions . But it was only ...
... Cooper's creation was complete : once they knew that such a world existed would American romantics be satisfied to ... Cooper was not by any means the only romantic artist to leave his audience with such questions . But it was only ...
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