Sealsfield’s Early Reception in England and America

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesHeller and Leon, Charles Sealsfield, Bibliography of his Writings together with a Classified and Annotated Catalogue of Literature Relating to his Works and his Life, St. Louis, 1939.A. B. Faust, Charles Sealsfield, der Dichter beider Hemisphären (Weimar, 1897), p. 176.Ibid., pp. 178-181.Ibid., p. 184, where the text of the agreement is cited.Ibid., p. 188.Ibid., p. 188.Ibid., p. 202.Ibid., p. 203. This date conflicts with information given by Dr. Heller in his “Sealsfield-Funde,” German American Annals, March and April, 1910, p. 83.Ibid., pp. 204-205.London Quarterly Review, p. 604; Blackwood’s, p. 755.London Quarterly Review, pp. 260-297.Ibid., January, 1828, pp. 261-262.Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor (Philadelphia, 1828), ii, 349. Cf. Karl J. Arndt, “The Cooper-Sealsfield Exchange of Criticism,” American Literature, xv, No. 1 (March, 1943), 16-24.American Quarterly Review, pp. 491-505.Ibid., p. 492.Faust, op. cit., p. 213.Austria as It Is: or, Sketches of Continental Courts. By an Eye-Witness, London, 1828.Meyer’s British Chronicle, Vor. ii, No. 25 (1827), 769-778. I am indebted to Miss May Olson of the Louisiana State Library staff for this important reference.London Literary Gazette, January 12, 1828, pp. 22-23; January 19, pp. 39-41.Ibid., January 12, p. 22.London Monthly Review, January, 1828, pp. 102-110.Ibid., p. 102.London New Monthly Magazine, February 1, 1828, pp. 53-54.London New Monthly Review, February, 1828, pp. 196-205.C. Sidons, Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika (Stuttgart, 1827), p. v. The United States of North America, etc. (London, 1828), p. x.Loc. cit., p. 197.Ibid., p. 205.Philadelphia National Gazette, March 1, 1828, p. 2.The Americans as They Are; Described in a Tour through the Valley of the Mississippi, etc. by the Author of Austria as It Is, London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828.Faust, op. cit., p. 209.London Athenaeum, March 7, 1828, pp. 198-199.London Literary Gazette, March 8, 1828, pp. 146-148.London Eclectic Review, March, 1828, pp. 232-248.Ibid., p. 233.Ibid., p. 234.That this view was by no means the prevailing one in the United States will be seen a little later in a discussion less obscured by the patriotic fury of the journalist. We find, however, the same feeling expressed in the London New Monthly Magazine (Aug. 28, 1828; Part 2, 165) in a review of Cooper’s Notions of Americans. Here, in a footnote to a statement expressing surprise at the sensitiveness of some Americans at a joke on the phraseology of American backwoodsmen, the critic remarks: “It is true, one book has lately been published on the American character, by a writer who appears never to have been in one of the old States of the Union, but who had sailed up the Mississippi, and sojourned a while among the Kentuckians on the Ohio!.”London New Monthly Magazine, May 1, 1828, p. 195.London Eclectic Review, May, 1828, pp. 399-406.Faust, op. cit., 61-63.Gustav Winter, “Einiges Neue über Charles Sealsfield,” Beiträge zur neueren Geschichte Österreichs, Wien, (May) 1907, pp. 1-23.Seufzer aus Österreich und seinen Provinzen, Leipzig, 1834.Österreich wie es ist, oder Skiszen von Fürstenhöfen des Kontinents, Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Victor Klarwill, Wien, 1919.The Indian chief; or, Tokeah and the white rose, London, 1829.Der Legitime und die Republikaner, Zürich, 1833.London Eclectic Review, November, 1829, pp. 365-398.Southern Literary Messenger, July, 1844, p. 447.