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Susan (Hrsg.) Manning

Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

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With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the firstclassic American short stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'.The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influ… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-161127-8
  • EAN: 9780191611278
  • Produktnummer: 13996254
  • Verlag: Oup Oxford
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor


Susan Manning is a University Lecturer in English at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham college. She has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and Scottish writing, including the critical study, The Puritan-Provincial Vision (1990). She has edited Walter Scott's Quentin Durward in World's Classics

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