The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

The Sketchbook ( original English title The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ) Is a 1819-20 published collection of short prose pieces ( sketches, or " sketches " ) of the American writer Washington Irving. Of particular importance for the history of literature, the sketchbook, as it with Rip Van Winkle, the Legend of Sleepy Gorge and The Ghost Groom three stories are included which are generally regarded as the first short stories of American literature.

Publication

Irving wrote the Sketchbook 1818-1819 in England. In 1815 he came to Liverpool to go to his brother in the management of the English branch of the Irvingschen family business at hand, but he could not avert the decline and ultimately the bankruptcy of the company in 1818. After these sobering years, Irving saw in a foreign country on their own and made ​​the decision to make the literature of livelihood. The texts of the Sketchbook appeared in America first over a period of around one and a half years in seven single issues, each with three or four sketches each number.

Collected in book form, they appeared in two volumes in 1820, first in London at Murray's, which at the time probably the most famous English literature publishing, and only briefly in New York; Irving wanted to minimize losses by English pirate editions.

1848 Irving revised the sketchbook for a recent edition of his publisher, George Palmer Putnam, changed especially the sequence of sketches and expanded the book to include two new essays, A Sunday in London and London Antiques. On this Author's Revised Edition based most modern editions of the sketchbook.

Expenditure

The most authoritative modern edition is:

  • Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Edited by Haskell Springer. Twayne, Boston, 1978 ( = Volume 8 by:. Pochmann Henry A., Herbert L. Klein Field, Richard D. Rust ( Ed.): The Complete Works of Washington Irving 30 volumes University of Wisconsin Press, Madison / Twayne, Boston.. from 1969 to 1986. )

Translations

  • Gottfried Crayon 's sketchbook. David Sauerland, 1846 in Frankfurt am Main. Projekt Gutenberg -DE.

Editions in German

  • Washington Irving 's sketchbook. Translator's Karl Theodor Gaedertz. Philipp Reclam, Leipzig 1877 and passim (1926 ) Washington Irving. Sketchbook. Durchges By Karl Brunner. Übers (after Gaedertz ), series British American Library, 2nd Dept.: Translation, 1st - Austrian publisher of Bellestristik and science ÖVBW, Linz 1947 with biography and notes of Hg.
  • Washington Irving, The Sketchbook. Transmitted using Translator's older and with an afterword by Siegfried Schmitz. Series The treasure trove, 35 Winkler, Munich 1968

Secondary literature

  • Jane D. Eberwein: Transatlantic Contrasts in Irving 's Sketch Book. In: College Literature 15:2, 1988, pp. 153-70. .
  • Simone Hagenmeyer: Washington Irving and the periodical essay of the 18th century. The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Salmagundi, and The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon as differing responses to British writing habits. Cuvillier, Göttingen 2000. ISBN 3-89712-997-3
  • Matthew Pethers: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of the Picturesque in Washington Irving 's Sketch Book. In: Symbiosis 9:2, 2005, pp. 135-58. .
  • Henry A. Pochmann: Irving 's German Sources in " The Sketch Book". In: Studies in Philology 27:3, 1930, pp. 477-507. .
  • Jeffrey Rubin - Dorsky: Washington Irving: Sketches of Anxiety. In: American Literature 58:4, 1986, pp. 499-522.
  • Jeffrey Rubin - Dorsky: The Value of Storytelling: " Rip Van Winkle " and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " in the Context of " The Sketch Book". In: Modern Philology 82:4, 1985, pp. 393-406.
  • Mary Ann Snyder Korber: Building the Better Book: Conversation, Complication, and the Constitution of the media in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. In: Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein (ed. ): American Studies as Media Studies. Winter, Heidelberg, 2008. Pp. 27-37.
  • Works of Washington Irving
  • Literary work
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Novel, epic
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