| Katherine L. Morrison - Počet stránok 352
...WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) is CONSIDERED the first post-Revolutionary American man of letters. His History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), written under the pseudonym of Diedrich Knickerbocker, is the first piece of sustained comic... | |
| Max Weber - 2005 - Počet stránok 524
...importanza. " A partire dal finto nome di uno scrittore olandese creato da Washington Irving nell'umoristica History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Dietrich Knickerbocker, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1889, apparsa per la prima volta nel 1809... | |
| Gabriel R. Ricci - Počet stránok 130
...Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1 835, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994) Vol. 1 ; 34. 14. Washington Irving, "A History of New York from the...Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker," The Works of Washington Irving, (New York: AL Burton Co., 1900) Vol. I;... | |
| Matthew Guillen - 2007 - Počet stránok 688
...culture with New York City as its literary center. The group took its name from Washington Irving's A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, presented as the work of an elderly Dutch gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809)—a bestseller... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - Počet stránok 525
...foundation is in the dust." 35 Possible allusion to the Yankee farmer in Washington Irving's (1783-1859) A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty who "sells his farm, air castle, petticoat windows and all, reloads his cart, shoulders his axe, puts... | |
| Bruce David Forbes - 2007 - Počet stránok 195
...twenty-four, and the title itself, in its long version, should alert readers to its whimsical nature: A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, 81 The Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the... | |
| Timothy Garrett Young - 2007 - Počet stránok 280
...and illustrator team the previous year. MAXFIELD PARRISH, 1870-1966 "The Blacksmith," July 1899 for A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, by Washington Irving (New York: RH Russell, 1900). Stippled ink on paper... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Boone - 2007 - Počet stránok 292
...part of The Crayon Miscellany (1835). Irving is also famous for his books about the United States. His History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) and talcs such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey... | |
| Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - Počet stránok 236
...by drawing our attention to the 'quotedness' of the term, the inverted commas raise a skeptical 44 Irving, A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, in History, Tales and Sketches, ed. James W. Tuttleton (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 363-720 (p. 381 ). Future... | |
| Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - Počet stránok 653
...is noteworthy, for example, that the closest Washington Irving ever came to writing a novel was with A History of New -York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), a mock-provincial history purportedly penned by Dietrich Knickerbocker, a figure famously used... | |
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