Eight studies by ARTHUR MIZENER Professor of English at Cornell University
1: The Noble Savage and the Refined Conscience
James Fenimore Cooper was the first American novelist to win an international reputation. In The Deerslayer he combines the universal Western myth of the Noble Savage with a direct knowledge of the American frontier. Nathaniel Hawthorne by contrast is the first great writer in the American tradition of psychological, subjective fiction. His masterpiece The Scarlet Letter is an allegory of the heart set in Puritan New England.
With readings by ALAN TILVERN and JAMES DYRKNFORTH
Produced by Howard Smith