...issued in 1812, 1819, 1824, 1829, and 1848. Based on the initial History of 1809, the edition I use is A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, in History, Tales and Sketches, ed. by James W. Tuttleton (New York: Literary Classics of the United...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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;...

...culture with New York City as its literary center. The group took its name from Washington Irving's A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, presented as the work of an elderly Dutch gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809)—a bestseller...

...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...

...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...

...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...