Book V

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book section

Book V is one of the later sections of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its mock-historical narrative of the early Dutch settlement of the city.

Aliases (1)

Book V (A History of New York) ×30

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book section →
author	Washington Irving →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
createdBy	Washington Irving →
follows	Book IV (A History of New York) →
genre	comic history →
hasTone	humorous → mock-heroic →
hasWorkTitle	Book V →
isFictionalizedAccountOf	history of New York under the Dutch →
language	English →
literaryForm	satire →
literaryMovement	early American literature →
narrativeMode	first-person narration →
narrator	Diedrich Knickerbocker →
originalPublicationMedium	print →
parodies	antiquarian histories → learned historical treatises →
partOf	A History of New York →
precedes	Book VI (A History of New York) →
settingPlace	New Amsterdam → New York (city) →
settingTime	Dutch colonial period →
subject	colonial governance → early Dutch settlement of New York → local politics →
usesDevice	mock-historical commentary → pseudo-scholarly footnotes →
workContainedIn	A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty →
workInSeries	later section of A History of New York →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A History of New York →	hasPart
Book V (A History of New York) →	hasWorkTitle