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This article concentrates, but not exclusively, on the short story writer and essayist Washington Irving (1783–1859) and his partly comic – with strong influences from Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne – History of New York (1809). Learned and conscious of that and very popular when it appeared, it was revised in 1820 and 1849, to softening effect.
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Bradley, Elizabeth. 2009. Knickerbocker: The myth behind New York. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.
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Tambling, J. (2022). Washington Irving: A History of New York. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_69
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