COOPER, James Fenimore

COOPER, James Fenimore
(1789-1851)
   US writer, best known for the Leather-Stocking Tales sequence in a gentlemanly frontier-adventure tale style, which includes The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and many other widely read novels featuring the woodsman Natty Bumppo. In JFC's sf novel, The Monikins (1835), an English gentleman purchases several captured specimens from an articulate monkey civilization located in a LOST WORLD in the Antarctic, which they describe to him so vividly that he returns there with them, only to find that the monkey civilization parodies 19th-century human politics. As in many PROTO-SCIENCE-FICTION tales of this sort, the protagonist then awakens. The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak (1847; vt Man's Reef, or The Crater 1868 UK) is a UTOPIA set on an ISLAND, which sinks.
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   See also: APES AND CAVEMEN (IN THE HUMAN WORLD).

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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