The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Informationen zum 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 Klappentext In The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating the first classic American short stories, Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of SleepyHollow. Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader. Zusammenfassung In The Sketch-Book Washington 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 first classic American short stories, `Rip Van Winkle' and `The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'.

Product details

• Authors: Washington Irving
• Assisted by: Susa Manning (Editor), Susan Manning (Editor), Susan (University Lecturer Manning (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199555819
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955581-9
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 18 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic fiction: general and literary