Rip Van Winkles Republic

Author : Andrew Burstein
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807178047
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle’s Republic written by Andrew Burstein and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Published in England and America in 1819–1820, and universally praised for its inventive characters and soul-searching qualities, including the immortal tales “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the volume enjoyed remarkable transatlantic success, allowing Irving to become the first of his nation to support himself as a professional author. In this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Irving’s imaginative world and complex cultural legacy. Alternately a satirist and a nostalgia merchant, Irving was ever absorbed in reconstituting a lost past, which the volume dubs “Rip Van Winkle’s Republic.” The assembled scholars explore issues of Anglo-American culture, the power of imagery, race, and the treatment of time and history in Irving’s vast body of literature, as well as his status as a bibliophile, an antiquarian, and a prominent figure in an age of literary celebrity. Edited by acclaimed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle’s Republic marks a rediscovery of this marvelous author of social satire and fabled tales of the past.

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125021766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Author : Herbert J. Storing
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226775801
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Anti-Federalists Were For written by Herbert J. Storing and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered." It was largely through their efforts, he reminds us, that the Constitution was so quickly amended to include a bill of rights. Storing here offers a brilliant introduction to the thought and principles of the Anti-Federalists as they were understood by themselves and by other men and women of their time. His comprehensive exposition restores to our understanding the Anti-Federalist share in the founding its effect on some of the enduring themes and tensions of American political life. The concern with big government and infringement of personal liberty one finds in the writings of these neglected Founders strikes a remarkably timely note.

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531051276
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cdl51241 Cae
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780694506736
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RIP VAN WINKLE AU written by Cdl51241 Cae and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1970-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Planquette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle written by Robert Planquette and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346882482
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle, a Legend of the Hudson written by Washington Irving and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070704
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alone in America written by Robert A. Ferguson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a vital one because a greater percentage of people live alone today than at any other time in U.S. history. The many isolated characters in American fiction, Ferguson says, appeal to us through inward claims of identity when pitted against the social priorities of a consensual culture. They indicate how we might talk to ourselves when the same pressures come our way. In fiction, more visibly than in life, defining moments turn on the clarity of an inner conversation. Alone in America tests the inner conversations that work and sometimes fail. It examines the typical elements and moments that force us toward a solitary state—failure, betrayal, change, defeat, breakdown, fear, difference, age, and loss—in their ascending power over us. It underlines the evolving answers that famous figures in literature have given in response. Figures like Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and Toni Morrison’s Sethe and Paul D., or Louisa May Alcott’s Jo March and Marilynne Robinson’s John Ames, carve out their own possibilities against ruthless situations that hold them in place. Instead of trusting to often superficial social remedies, or taking thin sustenance from the philosophy of self-reliance, Ferguson says we can learn from our fiction how to live alone.