Bibliograph

Washington Irving, by Lewis Leary

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Washington Irving, by Lewis Leary

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Washington Irving

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

275724

Responsibility statement

by Lewis Leary

Series statement

University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers, no. 25

Summary

"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." --, page 44

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Creator