Rip Van Winkle's republic : Washington Irving in history and memory / edited by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg.

"In the twenty-first century, precious little has been written about America's first professional author, Washington Irving, who was one of the most well-known and highly esteemed writers of the nineteenth century. Rip Van Winkle's Republic marks a rediscovery and reassessment of this marvelous auth...

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