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''Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography: A Story of New York at the Present Time in Which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters'' is a
''Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'' was first published anonymously in serial form in the ''New York'' ''Sunday Dispatch'' newspaper from March 14 to April 18, 1852. It was advertised in ''
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city mystery
City mysteries are a 19th-century genre of popular novel, in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and reveal corruption and exploitation, depicting violence and deviant sexuality. They were popular in both Europe and the United ...
novel by Walt Whitman
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. It was first published anonymously in 1852 as a serial in a newspaper before being rediscovered in 2017, when it was reprinted in journal article and book form.
Background
''Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'' was first published anonymously in serial form in the ''New York'' ''Sunday Dispatch'' newspaper from March 14 to April 18, 1852. It was advertised in ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' as a "Rich Revelation" and an "Auto-Biography."
It was unknown and not republished until in 2017 in the academic journal ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' after it was rediscovered by University of Houston graduate student Zachary Turpin as a work by Whitman.
Reprinting and reception
After its rediscovery, Jennifer Schuessler in ''The New York Times'' called the work a "quasi-Dickensian
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...
tale" with "more than a few unlikely plot twists and jarring narrative shifts". Turpin called it "a fun, rollicking, creative, twisty, bizarre little book". In 2017 the story was published in book form, edited and introduced by Turpin, by the University of Iowa Press The University of Iowa Press is a university press that is part of the University of Iowa.
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in its Iowa Whitman Series. There is yet little literary scholarship on the novel; the first two critical essays to deal with the novel—authored by Stefan Schöberlein and Stephanie M. Blalock, and Scott T. Zukowski—appeared in the ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' in 2020.
See also
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