The Bravo
novel by Cooper
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discussed in biography
- In James Fenimore Cooper: Cultural and political involvement of James Fenimore Cooper
Through his novels, most notably The Bravo (1831), and other more openly polemical writings, he attacked the corruption and tyranny of oligarchical regimes in Europe. His active championship of the principles of political democracy (though never of social egalitarianism) coincided with a steep decline in his literary popularity in America,…
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