2 - 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving (1819)

Hello everyone. Alex joins me this week to discuss Washington Irving's short story, Rip Van Winkle, a pioneering narrative inbeing annoyed with ones wife. This is the public version of Literary Hangover. To support the show, consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/literaryhangover, giving reviews in iTunes, Stitcher, etc and most happily telling your friends

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References:

"Peter Klaus," the folk tale Rip Van WInkle was based upon.

https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/German_folktale_6.html

Biographer Brian Jay Jones on Irving at the New York Society Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH6JJw6ngY&t=683s

Michael Warner, "Irving's Posterity" in ELH (Fall 2000)

"The American Experience: A Collection of Great American Stories" at Audible

"Washington Irving and the Conservative Imagination," Allen Guttmann, American Literature (May, 1964)