Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His Servant

Year of Publication
1792
Number of Pages or Episodes
336 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
John McCulloch
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."
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.
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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