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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. / Washington Irving ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Susan Manning. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XXXVII, 353 strony ; 20 cm.

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Irving, Washington (1783-1859). Manning, Susan (1953- ).

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Literatura amerykańska

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Szkic literacki Satyra

Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press

Na okładce: Cover illustration: detail from an illustration of literary character Rip Van Winkle as he wakes up after a twenty year sleep, 1888.

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.

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Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St John de Crévecoeur ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Susan Manning. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XLVI, 235 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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St. John de Crévecoeur, J. Hector (1735-1813). Manning, Susan (1953- ).

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Wojna o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych (1775-1783)

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First published in England in 1782, the Letters came at a timely moment as attention was focused on America in the closing year of the Revolutionary War of Independence. Crevecoeur's famous question 'What, then, is the American, this new man?' was a matter of great interest, as it became evident that America, that new nation, was taking shape before the eyes of the world. Some of American literature's most pressing and recurrent concerns are adumbrated in the substance and style of the Letters: in addition to the question of American identity, they celebrate the largeness and fertility of the land, personal determination, and freedom from institutional oppression. Darker and more symbolic elements complicate the initially sunny picture, however: the issue of slavery is raised in a particularly disturbing episode, and the final Letter, 'Distresses of a Frontier Man,' dramatizes the disintegration of the rational enlightened society of agrarian America into a nightmare of confusion, incomprehension and premonitions of unspeakable evil. Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer has a good claim to be regarded as the first work of American literature, at once intensely interesting in its own right, and casting a long shadow of influence on both subsequent American writers and European travel accounts of the moral, spiritual and material topography of the new nation.

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