Washington Irving

Broschiertes Buch

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Beschreibung

In The Sketch-Book Washington 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'.

Autor

Susan Manning is a University Lecturer in English at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham college. She has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and Scottish writing, including the critical study, The Puritan-Provincial Vision (1990). She has edited Walter Scott's Quentin Durward in World's Classics

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780199555819
• ISBN-10: 0199555818
• Artikelnr.: 26126091