Author: Washington Irving
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Author: Lydia G. Fash
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Ten Selections from the Sketch-book
Author: Washington Irving
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Buckinghamshire Sketches
Author: Edward Stanley Roscoe
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Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature
Author: Edward Farley Oaten
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Category : Anglo-Indian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Category : Anglo-Indian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Poetry and the Drama, Literature and Polygraphy, Belonging to the Public Library of Indianapolis
Author: Indianapolis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...
Author: Andrew Troeger
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Chautauquan
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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I Am An Artist
Author: Marta Altés
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447269942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Meet the boy who can't stop creating art! He loves colours, shapes, textures and EVERYTHING inspires him: his socks, the contents of the fridge, even his cat gets a new coat (of paint!). But there's just one problem: his mum isn't quite so enthusiastic. In fact, she seems a little cross! But this boy has a plan to make his mum smile. He's about to create his finest piece yet and on a very grand scale . . . Funny, irreverent and perfect for creative children and adults, I Am An Artist by Marta Altés is a sharp, silly, fabulous book which shows that art is EVERYWHERE!
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447269942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Meet the boy who can't stop creating art! He loves colours, shapes, textures and EVERYTHING inspires him: his socks, the contents of the fridge, even his cat gets a new coat (of paint!). But there's just one problem: his mum isn't quite so enthusiastic. In fact, she seems a little cross! But this boy has a plan to make his mum smile. He's about to create his finest piece yet and on a very grand scale . . . Funny, irreverent and perfect for creative children and adults, I Am An Artist by Marta Altés is a sharp, silly, fabulous book which shows that art is EVERYWHERE!