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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Washington Irving"”.
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The Sketch Book : Washington Irving's literary apprenticeship in England.
When Washington Irving attempted to earn a living as a writer in 1819, professional authors were virtually unheard of in America. Recognizing this situation, Irving decided to remain in England after the collapse of the Liverpool branch of his brothers' import-export business, where he had been …
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From Fear to Reverie: Incidents in Isolation in the American Wilderness
… The selected Nineteenth Century authors: Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Alan Poe, Harriet Spofford,<em> </em>Nathaniel Hawthorne, and<em> </em>Herman Melville root America’s identity in the wilderness. They emphasize its power on the human psyche as positive, restorative, …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… (1836) marshals source material by Washington Irving and historian Samuel Drake to intervene in the narrative of national origin wherein Puritans become proto-Revolutionaries, the Indians vanish, and the new republic is fated to dominate the continent. The subsequent two chapters …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
… transatlantically—centuries later after Washington Irving published Knickerbocker’s History of New York in 1809, Clement Clarke Moore published his famous poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, in 1823, and Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843. Not only did St. Nicholas, who …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… reveals an artistic parallel to the writings of Washington Irving and his Knickerbocker Catskill gentry. The urban scene seemed to warrant to a lesser degree the nostalgic point of view of rural life. "City" painters at this time were fewer in number since city patrons preferred portraiture and …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… of war writing, as were James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Herman Melville earlier in the nineteenth century. My dissertation traces an alternate literary history of American war, one written by soldiers from the early republic through Reconstruction. The soldier's authority has been …