John Neal

Gebundenes Buch

The Down Easters V1

Beschreibung

I had seen her in my youth, I knew her when the war of 1812 broke out, and I knew her at the close of that war, when it began to be considered a very proper thing for people to go to church twice a day--rain or shine--provided they were not able to keep a carriage. I knew her at a period when fire and earth-quake had made it rather fashionable to pray--and when very respectable and very genteel people, were known to pray--and when the most beautiful women of New-York were to be seen at church, though Broadway, the Battery, and both rivers were open at the time; and she appeared to me to grow younger and younger every year.

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: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781161461640
• ISBN-10: 1161461647
• Artikelnr.: 30787228