...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...

...coincide widi the bicentenary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the valley diat would take his name, A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty looks back to anodier generation of founding fathers and presents an alternative foundational narrative...

...Democracy in America, 1 835, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994) Vol. 1 ; 34. 14. Washington Irving, "A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker," The Works of Washington Irving, (New York: AL Burton Co., 1900) Vol. I;...

...and illustrator team the previous year. MAXFIELD PARRISH, 1870-1966 "The Blacksmith," July 1899 for A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, by Washington Irving (New York: RH Russell, 1900). Stippled ink on paper...

...twenty-four, and the title itself, in its long version, should alert readers to its whimsical nature: A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, 81 The Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the...

...part of The Crayon Miscellany (1835). Irving is also famous for his books about the United States. His History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) and talcs such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey...

...foundation is in the dust." 35 Possible allusion to the Yankee farmer in Washington Irving's (1783-1859) A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty who "sells his farm, air castle, petticoat windows and all, reloads his cart, shoulders his axe, puts...

...noteworthy, for example, that the closest Washington Irving ever came to writing a novel was with A History of New -York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), a mock-provincial history purportedly penned by Dietrich Knickerbocker, a figure famously used...

...(Edinburgh, 1752). Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1 739) (Oxford, 1978). Irving, Washington, A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) in History, Tales and Sketches, James W. Tuttleton (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,...