James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Johanna Spyri; Authors from Different Places and Times with Experiences they Chose to Share
Introduction:
Many artists find themselves struggling to find their identity in the beginning and then when you have discovered yourself it can be hard to come up with ideas to fit the mold as what the public sees them as. This then leads to what people call the struggling artist’s life due to the fact that without making a product there is no income to flow into the household. These three authors: James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Johanna Spyri all went through the tough times of finding an identity or how to take personal experiences and then turn them into a story that readers would enjoy. Going
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deep into their lives of the biographies and background stories, you see what was painful to them or a topic they learned a lesson from that we could relate to or learn the lesson with them and then apply it to our personal lives. Then, seeing the influences they had could influence the reader personally or to think that they could be an inspiration to someone else shows with the legacy they have left behind and the critics that they overcame and criticism they took to make their writing better. James Fenimore Cooper the writer of Last of the Mohicans was not driven to be a writer until his wife challenged him in 1820 to write a book better than she was reading at the time.
So, in taking her up on the challenge, he wrote Precaution 1820. Precaution is about the morals and manners that showed the many influences of Jane Austen. Cooper was the oldest of the three authors and was not seen to be the most talented or to become the most popular after his death. Born into a wealthy family on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New York, the eleventh of the twelve children in his family. Cooper wrote many books in the beginning back to back trying to find himself as a writer it was not until after he wrote The Pioneers in 1823 that he started to use his own experiences and influences to really get his message across. After the public reaction he saw that he was on the right track of things and that his truth is what his audience felt most connected with. Many of his books are characterized in the historical fiction and have a genre of interracial love and friendship, nature, religion in the wilderness, and the underlying theme of …show more content…
family. Charles Dickens famous then and even more famous today.
If any author has left a legacy larger than life he would definitely be a top contender. Born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, England, when the King of England was George the Third. At the time of his death, June 9, 1870, in Higham, United Kingdom, Queen Victoria was ruling in what we know of today as the Victorian Age of England. Dickens had a rough childhood with his family struggling financially and in the fact that they would move around a lot. in 1815 Dickens’s family moved to London and lived in a town called Chatham where he recalls to be the happiest time of his childhood. At this time he would spend time with his mother learning the basics of reading and where he was enrolled into a local school. Charles Dickens would take walks with his father around the Cobham Hall a grand house that he always admired he later on in 1856 bought the home and resided there until his death in 1870. The Dickens family was torn apart in 1824 when John Dickens was arrested for debt and the family was separated Charles and his sister Fanny Dickens were the only ones that were left out as orphans left to fend for themselves. At the age of 11 Dickens finds himself working in a factor, these were some of the hardest times of his life that he rarely ever discussed but were very influential to his writing. One of the men he worked with was the inspiration to Oliver Twist, the story of New Poor Law and the system made to help the
poor but with many flaws did the opposite. Dickens writing has many influences from his past that he felt that he could not talk about so he wrote stories in place of them whether it be his life stories or other’s lives that he met in his journey.
In 1820, Cooper published his first fiction Precaution. He published it on a dare from his wife. Cooper said he could write a better fiction than Jane Austen’s novels of English gentry manners. Today, Precaution is mainly used as a document of American colonialism.
"Crumbling is not an instant’s Act'; is a lyric by Emily Dickinson. It tells how crumbling does not happen instantaneously; it is a gradual process occurring slowly and cumulatively over time.
Dickens used his great talent by describing the city London were he mostly spent his time. By doing this Dickens permits readers to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the aged city, London. This ability to show the readers how it was then, how ...
In 1820 Cooper published his first fiction, Precaution, on a challenge from his wife. This novel was largely unsuccessful. In 1821 he published his second book, The Spy, which was modeled after Sir Walter Scott's "Waverly" novels, except it was set during the American Revolution. The Spy brought Cooper international fame and a certain amount of wealth.
Watts, Steven. “The Young Artist as Social Visionary” The Romance of Real Life. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. pp. 49-70.
In the excerpt provided from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, he provides and lacking description about his feelings toward the oncoming French revolution and how women function in that society. His language is vivid and paints a specific picture in the readers mind about the time and place of this story. However, his thoughts about the coming revolution are slightly unclear.
Cooper's first novel, Precaution, written in 1820, was unsuccessful, but the following year Cooper gained fame with The Spy, a historical romance novel about the American Revolution. He then wrote several novels of sea adventures before writing the Leather-Stocking Tales, a five book collection, including The Last of the Mohicans, about the North American frontier. In 1826, Cooper left the United States and spent eight years in Europe where he continued his success and wrote novels about medieval Europe, democracy and polit...
The early nineteenth century was greatly influenced by Greek art and architecture after exhumations of Grecian works and the removal of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum. Charles Dickens, a great Victorian writer and English man, pursued many forms of art and literature at an early age. His education and excursions before and after the tragedy of his father’s imprisonment most likely led him to visit the museum or see other works inspired by Ancient Greek culture in the then Neoclassical period. In many of his works, including Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol, Dickens references Greek mythology to describe characters or their actions. Tale of Two Cities, one of Dickens’ bestsellers, contains many of these references that cannot help but to capture the reader’s attention and expand on many facets of Dickens’ writing. To create detailed imagery and to develop the theme of fate, Dickens alludes to Greek and Roman mythology with the Furies, the Gorgons, and the Fates.
It is evident that he revealed these ideas in his books based off his words through his tours and the real-life settings and scenarios that he carefully selected. His novels A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist were his most popular and influential books(Bio).He was not able to complete his last novel, however, because he died at age 58 of a stroke. Dickens would die with the feeling of abandonment by the people who were supposed to take care of
Charles Dickens, an English writer and social critic, lived in England from 1812 to 1870 (Cody). Dickens usually critiques topics important to him or those that have affected him throughout his life. He grew up poor and was forced to work at an early age when his father was thrown into debtors prison (Cody). As he became a popular and widely known author he was an outspoken activist for the betterment of poor people’s lives (Davis). He wrote A Tale of Two Cities during the 1850s and published the book in 185...
First, Charles Dickens’ experience will be explained. Followed by that of Alexander Mackay. Charles Dickens had a lot to say about his trip to New York, and reacted to everything he saw in detail. He was very descriptive of even the smallest details.
Philip, Neil and Victor Neuberg. Charles Dickens A December Vision and Other Thoughtful Writings. New York: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1987. A helpful collection of 10 essays by Dickens with accompanying explanations by the authors. Essays are followed by relevant passages from Dickens' novels.
History has not only been important in our lives today, but it has also impacted the classic literature that we read. Charles Dickens has used history as an element of success in many of his works. This has been one of the keys to achievement in his career. Even though it may seem like it, Phillip Allingham lets us know that A Tale of Two Cities is not a history of the French Revolution. This is because no actual people from the time appear in the book (Allingham). Dickens has many different reasons for using the component of history in his novel. John Forster, a historian, tells us that one of these reasons is to advance the plot and to strengthen our understanding of the novel (27). Charles Dickens understood these strategies and could use them to his advantage.
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and died in 1870; Dickens was the most influential and popular English novelist, of the Victorian age. He is even considered the most popular novelist in 21st century. During Dickens lifetime, he became well known internationally for his extraordinary characters, his mastery of prose in telling their lives, and his portrayal of the social classes.
Carswell, Beth. “11 Charles Dickens Facts.” Abe Books’ Reading Copy. 1996. Web. 28 March 2014.