01135nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_125558 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 26.40 813.2 C777/Vol.1 Cooper, James Fenimore The leatherstocking tales James Fenimore Cooper ; Edited by Blake Nevius New York, NY The Library of America 1985 In The Pioneers (1823) James Fenimore Cooper, who created the forerunner of backwoods heroes, depicts the clash between individualistic and communal impulses of people in the early development of a frontier settlement in upstate New York. The founder of the settlement, Judge Temple, is the personification of a bourgeois planned and stable society. He believes that laws imposed on individuals separate people from savages and are prerequisites for a civilized society United States,American fiction History,Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,Fiction 19th century Minh Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ