http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#002a5ab1-58ab-4dfe-b921-194d2ba481a0 Cooper. Check. Working on it. Thanks, everyone! Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:52:47 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#002a5ab1-58ab-4dfe-b921-194d2ba481a0 JM 2008-02-13T07:52:47Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#9a40f0bf-7a32-45eb-9424-caeec8081111 Herman Melville. He may not be early enough for you, but he wrote some fabulous novels set in exotic foreign places. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:47:48 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#9a40f0bf-7a32-45eb-9424-caeec8081111 Linsey 2008-01-31T02:47:48Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#f521fb9f-d88a-4de7-90a7-0028b38d82d4 the answer is 'Washington Irving.' what is the question? 'who was the first president of the united states, morris?' Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:05:53 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#f521fb9f-d88a-4de7-90a7-0028b38d82d4 Mad 2008-01-25T22:05:53Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#8809df6f-e91a-41a6-9d77-f64217bd77c3 The Power of Sympathy (1789) is a novel written by William Hill Brown, usually considered to be the first American novel. But it takes place in Boston. Wieland is a Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, first published in 1798. But again it took place in Philadelphia, though the main characters are mostly European in origin. Washington Irving is probably the earliest American fiction writer that wrote stories that took place outside the U.S. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:27:50 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#8809df6f-e91a-41a6-9d77-f64217bd77c3 Ipsissimus 2008-01-25T21:27:50Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#008fc20a-28ca-4826-ba9b-f5019ef45610 Have you read Irving's 'The Alhambra'? if not it's a good read. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:19:11 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#008fc20a-28ca-4826-ba9b-f5019ef45610 Ipsissimus 2008-01-25T21:19:11Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#9e711b47-9e6e-4daa-8e78-be1ce75efcd4 How early? James Fenimore Cooper wrote some things set in Europe, published in the 1820's and 30's. Poe's works date to the 1830's. It's probably my ignorance of the subject, but I can't even think of anyone writing fiction of any sort in the US prior to the people mentioned here and contemporaries like Hawthorne. Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:08:42 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#9e711b47-9e6e-4daa-8e78-be1ce75efcd4 gidouille 2007-07-08T23:08:42Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#dbbb0dc8-b827-45e0-a4f2-58411de92c41 So you're talking the Colonial period then? I doubt you'll find much if anything, as the majority of pre-independence literature is religious, historical or philosophical in nature, with the occasional political tract or broadside ballad thrown in for good measure. Whatever fiction exists from that period is likely to be educational or devotional in nature. Even the poetry is religious, with poets like Edward Taylor following in the footsteps of England's Metaphysical poets (George Herbert, etc.) Prior to the emergence of writers like Irving and Charles Brockden Brown (whose Gothic novels with American settings were published between 1798-1801), I'm not sure there was much of a market for American-authored fiction (certainly not for novels) and even those two men wrote an enormous quantity of non-fiction to pay the bills. You may be able to find one or two poems that reference Greece or Rome as few Western poets who've ever lived haven't mentioned them at one time or another. Not sure what you'd find would be worth the search though. Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:02:02 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#dbbb0dc8-b827-45e0-a4f2-58411de92c41 Marie Therese 2007-07-08T23:02:02Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#92e98116-7845-4779-a27b-8a71d5746ec5 Thank you guys, but ... no, no, no, no, no and... I already got Irving, thanks. Tales of a Traveler, right? I need earlier stuff. Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:57:01 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#92e98116-7845-4779-a27b-8a71d5746ec5 JM 2007-07-08T21:57:01Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#134e18c2-8a7c-4f54-8508-812c740ebf75 edith wharton wrote at least one set in england (the buccaneers), but i'm sure there's more. also henry james wrote a few set in england and europe Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:59:26 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#134e18c2-8a7c-4f54-8508-812c740ebf75 cece 2007-07-06T15:59:26Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#33955849-aa06-4fec-a6a2-31c27721dbbc I suggest checking out the oeuvre of Washington Irving (1783-1859). Quite a number of his short stories are set in Britain or continental Europe (he wrote a great deal of fiction that might be termed "gothic", so he needed the appropriate castles and convents, etc). You can find most of his work online; some of the gothic style short stories can be found here: http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/I/IrvingWashington/index.html Earlier than this, I'm not sure. No particular name is springing to mind but surely someone would have written something set in Britain or the Netherlands (depending on the era)-homelands, after all . Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:10:57 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#33955849-aa06-4fec-a6a2-31c27721dbbc Marie Therese 2007-07-06T04:10:57Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#1fa3bf88-2e33-4817-8323-99e7dccc6d7f Perhaps, The Man without a Country by Edward Everett Hale, propaganda though it was. Several of Poe's stories have foreign settings - The Cask of Amontillado, the Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Murders in the Rue Morgue to name a few. Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:23:27 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#1fa3bf88-2e33-4817-8323-99e7dccc6d7f gidouille 2007-07-05T01:23:27Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#e9b74ac8-3232-42f3-bda0-eeda78fe9c92 Is Mark Twain early enough? The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad spring to mind, also some of his essays. Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:22:16 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#e9b74ac8-3232-42f3-bda0-eeda78fe9c92 Miker 2007-07-04T11:22:16Z http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#6c741bda-78ba-40be-9b22-715ac4dd68a4 Can anyone think of early American stories or novels or poems set in non-American settings? Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:57:15 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/ba54af1a-32d5-4202-9f52-516fdbb95592#6c741bda-78ba-40be-9b22-715ac4dd68a4 JM 2007-07-04T10:57:15Z