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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Paperback)
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every
American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1)
looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the
Atlantic, as 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'. The result was not only a
hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative
influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar
Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own
right today. 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. In her
introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new
idiom, the 'Literary Picturesque', to accommodate and turn to
advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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