The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow, and the Folklore of Early American Romanticism
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
288
Maße (L/B/H)
1,5/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
401 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3684-4
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) is a miscellany of travel essays, literary reflections, character sketches, and tales, unified by the urbane persona of Geoffrey Crayon. Its most famous pieces, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," helped found an American imaginative tradition by blending folklore, historical memory, gentle satire, and Gothic suggestion. Written in a polished, Addisonian prose style, the book stands between eighteenth-century essay culture and Romanticism, negotiating the cultural claims of Europe and the emerging United States. Washington Irving, born in New York in 1783, was unusually positioned to write such a transatlantic work. A lawyer by training but a man of letters by vocation, he traveled widely in Britain and Europe, absorbing antiquarian interests, picturesque aesthetics, and literary sociability. His own status as an American abroad sharpened his fascination with inheritance, national identity, and the uses of legend in shaping communal memory. This book is warmly recommended to readers interested in the origins of American fiction, the essay as an art form, and the literary invention of national myth. It remains elegant, humorous, and historically indispensable.
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