Publication Date

1959

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Rodney, Robert M.||Murray, Don, 1917-||Burtness, Paul S.

Degree Name

M.S. Ed. (Master of Education)

Legacy Department

Department of English

LCSH

Irving; Washington; 1783-1859. History of New York; Irving; Washington; 1783-1859. Salmagundi; Irving; Washington; 1783-1859. Sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon; gent

Abstract

Washington Irving, American’s first man of letters of the early 19th century, has been studied as a literary and political critic, but not as a social critic. In the introduction to his Irving bibliography, Stanley Williams asserts that the adulation and eulogy of Irving during the latest quarter of the 19th century was based on sentimentality but that Irving is important to the literary historian as the exponent of a tradition and as an index to the culture of the period.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references.

Extent

103 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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