...so-called "Knickerbocker History." THE KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY {1809] Irving's first literary success, A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), is the book commonly known as the "Knickerbocker History," from its fictitious author, Diedrich...

...Mathews, Comedian (London: Richard Bentley, 1839), 3:384-85. 85. For whistling, see [Washington Irving], A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty . . . (1809; reprint, New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1880), 103-4; for improvising and creating songs,...

...distributing English-language Bibles throughout the city (see American Bible Society, 1816). JL Nonfiction: A History of New York from the Beginning of ~ the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Washington Irving is published on St. Nicholas Day, December 6. Irving dedicates his comic history...

...Tlie New Nation, ¡865-1917 (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1960), 29-40. 19. Washington Irving, A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (New York: AMS Press, 1973; originally 1809), 53-67. Maud W. Goodwin, Dutch and English on the Hudson...

...lives, given to careful public display of aristocratic values. Irving was making fun of them in his A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. But the name stuck, and even the subjects of his humor came to embrace it. I'm always cheered when...

...thinker in his own right: see Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. 44. Washington Irving, A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (New York: Inskeep & Bradford, 1809). 45. The Pope quote is from Essay on...

...satiric writing about New York City and its past in the magazine Salmagundi (1807—1808) and in a book A History of New York from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809). The book is also called Knickerbocker's History of New York because he wrote it under the name...

...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...

...the annals of the Dutch in America that inspired Washington Irving to write his infinitely humorous History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by "Diedrich Knickerbocker." It is difficult for an Anglo-Saxon to take the Dutch in America seriously....

...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...