Author: Hugo Walter

Publisher: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433125737

The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature.