person
James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
also: Купер
American novelist (1789-1851), author of The Last of the Mohicans and other frontier romances; invoked here alongside Mayne Reid as emblematic boyhood adventure reading behind the sketch's mock-exotic imagery.
Reading notes
- Idyll §6 Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist of frontier adventure (The Last of the Mohicans); paired here with Mayne Reid as shorthand for boyhood adventure reading imported into an exotic vision of the West.