The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics)



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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics) Washington Irving
Language: English
Page: 528
Format: epub
ISBN: 1411432533, 9781411432536
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From Library Journal

Europe was the destination of choice for 19th-century American travelers. Through diaries, newspaper articles, guidebooks, and magazine essays, Stowe (English, Wesleyan Univ.) examines the personal and social reasons that well-known travelers such as Emerson, Twain, and Henry Adams, as well as African Americans like David F. Dorr and women like Margaret Fuller, sailed east. Early in the century, Americans celebrated their identity as former Europeans, paying homage to common history and tradition. In the later years, traveling Americans were aware of their separate identity, with a culture that had evolved from the European model. These writers used their traveling experience to hone writing skills and create a literary style, much the same as travel writers do today. Though intriguing, this dense, scholarly book will be more at home in academic than public libraries.
Mary Ann Parker, Dept. of Water Resources Law Lib., Sacramento, Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Beginning with the work of Washington Irving, travel literature was a popular art form in 19th-century America. . . . This volume effectively shows the evolution of the genre's conventions, the socioeconomic roots of its popularity, and the multiplicity of its social, cultural, and aesthetic functions.

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