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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
Carl Munter's Nu sund wi in Amerika. Dietzsch, Heerbrandt, and Burkle have imitated high German dialects, the first-named that of the Palatinate, the latter two the Swabian speech. The Hessian dialect appears in a most amusing little book by Georg Asmus, called Amerikanisches Skizzebuchelche, Eine Epistel in Versen, in which an immigrant of little cultivation but considerable native wit writes home to his uncle about the strange things that happened to him in America (1874). The method of mingling broken English with German dialect to heighten the comical effect was used by Asmus and also by Karl Adler (Mundartlich Heiteres), but the greatest popular success in this department was achieved by the American writer Charles Godfrey Leland See Book III, Chap. IX. in his Hans Breitmann's ballads, a caricature that has often been wrongly taken as a truthful picture of existing conditions—just as Irving's Knickerbocker history has been of Dutch New York. Sometimes Breitmann's ballads
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Arctic experiences, 168 Arctic explorations, 167 Arctic researches and life among the Eskimaux, 168 Argonaut (San Francisco), 140 Aristophanes, 121, 624 Aristotle, 8, 235, 238, 259, 260, 263, 471 Arizona, 283 Arizonian, 581 Arlberg, Max, 582 Armand. See Strubberg, F. Armijo, 132 Arrah-na-pogue, 268 Arrow Maker, the, 296 Artemus Ward. See Browne, Charles F. Arthur Bonnicastle, 416 Article 47, 271 Art in the Netherlands, 75 As a man thinks, 283 Asmus, Georg, 583 Aspinwall, Thomas, 183 Association, 437 Association discussed, 437 Astor, J. J., 452 Athanasius, 231 Atharva-Veda-Praticakhya, 468 Atharva-Veda-Sanhita;, 468 Athenian Mercury, 334 Atkinson, Edward, 363, 437, 440 Atlantic Monthly, 5, 36, 57, 66 n., 77, 78, 80, 103, 122, 141, 301, 304, 305-307, 312, 314, 316, 318, 482 n., 488, 496 At the funeral of a minor poet, 37 Aubert Dubayet, 598 Auctioneer, the, 281 Audrey, 287 Audubon, John James, 112, 134, 540