Washington Irving.
Series: University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers ;; no. 25
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Biography
Description: With quick eye, ready tongue, and alert recognition of absurdities, Washington Irving sits quietly at both ends of the American literary spectrum -- an expatriate seeking reverently in Europe for sources of culture, but most effective in realizing American characters enmeshed in American ideals; and at the same time a native myth-maker who wove indigenous lore into comic tales which became fables. His country's first, but not her best, romantic historian; an early, but unsatisfying, impressionistic biographer; an exotic local colorist; a mildly boisterous, thigh-slapping, sidesplitting rural humorist;, a comic realist, a caricaturist. - p. 44.
Notes: Includes bibliography.