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Killing Tom Coffin: rethinking the nationalist narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot.(Critical essay)
Early American Literature
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September 22, 2008|
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[T]hese waves, to me, are what the land is to you; I was born on them, and I have always meant that they should be my grave.
--James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot
Set during the Revolutionary War, James Fenimore Cooper's first maritime novel, The Pilot (1824), is a historical romance that follows a nascent American navy's fictitious attempt to bring the battle to England. "Long" Tom Coffin, whose words appear in the epigraph, is Cooper's romantically charged natural sailor--a sea-born Nantucket native and whaler who stands nearly six feet tall and carries his ...
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