The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving

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2008
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Washington Irving-author, ambassador, Manhattanite, and international celebrity-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are still very well known. With a historian's eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature. Though he gave his young nation such enduring tales as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, he was far more than one of our nation's most outsized literary talents. Irving was an American original and a citizen of the world.

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Washington Irving-author, ambassador, Manhattanite, and international celebrity-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are still very well known. With a historian's eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature. Though he gave his young nation such enduring tales as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, he was far more than one of our nation's most outsized literary talents. Irving was an American original and a citizen of the world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 05 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0465008542
ISBN 13: 9780465008544

Author Bio

Andrew Burstein, a native New Yorker, is the Mary Frances Barnard Professor of 19th-Century U.S. History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of six books on early America, including The Passions of Andrew Jackson and Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello. Burstein lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.