Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His Servant
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1792
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
336 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Hugh Henry Brackenridge |
| Publisher |
John McCulloch
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| City |
Philadelphia
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| Abstract |
The first known Pittsburgh novel, and one of the first American novels, is a satirical ramble about John Farrago, a sort of Don Quixote on the new nation's Western frontier. On a whim, John leaves his farm outside of Pittsburgh with his witless, Sancho-Panza-like Irish sidekick, Teague O'Regan, "to ride about the world a little" and "see how things were going on here and there," and "observe human nature."
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| Notes |
The novel was first published by installment over a 28-year period. The 1792 edition grew over the years into four books; in 1815 a revised and complete four-volume set was published.
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| Author Biography |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816), born in Campbeltown, Scotland and educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), was a writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Brackenridge founded both Pittsburgh Academy and the Pittsburgh Gazette, now the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, respectively. |
| Time |
1780s-90s |
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