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Literary Capital

A Washington Reader

Literary Capital( )
Editor: Sten, Christopher
Contribution by: Adams, Abigail
Hines, Christian
Irving, Washington
Watterson, George
Smith, Margaret Bayard
Cooper, James Fenimore
Trollope, Frances
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Dickens, Charles
Melville, Herman
Hawk, Black
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Brown, William Wells
Northup, Solomon
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Alcott, Louisa May
Whitman, Walt
Keckley, Elizabeth Hobbs
Sinclair, Upton
Twain, Mark
Warner, Charles Dudley
DeForest, John William
Harte, Bret
Douglass, Frederick
Adams, Henry
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Atherton, Gertrude
Washington, Booker T.
James, Henry
Phillips, David Graham
Cooper, Anna
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth
Terrell, Mary Church
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Williams, Edward Christopher
Locke, Alain
Hughes, Langston
Ellison, Ralph
Bencastro, Mario
Lewis, Sinclair
Toomer, Jean
Cather, Willa
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Dos Passos, John
Halle, Louis J.
Golden, Marita
Jones, Edward
Mallon, Thomas
Holleran, Andrew
Brown, Sterling A.
Tate, Allen
MacLeish, Archibald
Bishop, Elizabeth
Ginsberg, Allen
Levertov, Denise
Miller, May
Whittemore, Reed
Miller, E
Drury, Allen
Vidal, Gore
Mailer, Norman
Just, Ward
McCarthy, Mary
Coover, Robert
Heller, Joseph
Shreve, Susan Richards
Pelecanos, George.p
Didion, Joan
ISBN:978-0-8203-3836-1
Publication Date:Jul 2011
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

A compelling portrait of Washington, D.C. through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.

Book Details
Pages:484
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.068 x 9.163 x 1.377 Inches
Book Weight:1.82 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859.

Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.



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