John Neal

Gebundenes Buch

Authorship A Tale

Beschreibung

Very fair--but I would not have you suppose, reader--my dear fellow--that I said to the girl in question all that I have said here. By no means--for long and long before I had come to the words, No no, my girl, the maxim though true enough is a very bad one for you and such as you, I had pitched myself head-foremost into my gig, without observing that another, a very superb one, was at the door, and that somebody was standing at the large window who--if I had caught a glimpse of her before I was fairly off, would have put a stop to my speech for ever--if not to me.

Autor

John Neal was an American author, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Between the 1810s and 1870s, he gave lectures and wrote essays, novels, poetry, and short tales in the United States and Great Britain, advocating American literary nationalism and regionalism at their inception. Neal contributed to the creation of American art, battled for women's rights, championed the abolition of slavery and racial prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement. Neal, the first American novelist to employ natural diction and a pioneer of colloquialism, coined the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" in a work of fiction. He achieved his greatest literary achievements between 1817 and 1835, when he was America's first daily newspaper columnist, the first American to be published in British literary journals, the author of the first history of American literature, America's first art critic, a short story pioneer, a children's literature pioneer, and a precursor to the American Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781161422818
• ISBN-10: 1161422811
• Artikelnr.: 30768431