Paulding, James Kirke

Paulding, James Kirke

▪ American writer
born Aug. 22, 1778, Dutchess county, N.Y., U.S.
died April 6, 1860, Hyde Park, N.Y.
 dramatist, novelist, and public official chiefly remembered for his early advocacy and use of native American material in literature.

      At 18 he went to New York City, where he formed a lasting friendship with the Irving brothers. This association aroused his enthusiasm for literature, and he, with William and Washington Irving, founded the Salmagundi (1807–08), a periodical consisting mainly of light satires on local subjects. The outbreak of hostilities between England and America encouraged the assertion of Paulding's nationalism. He satirized England's conduct toward America during the war in The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812) and The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle: A Tale of Havre de Grace (1813), the latter a burlesque of Sir Walter Scott. The same spirit of nationalism found expression in two later satires also directed at the British: A Sketch of Old England: by a New England Man (1822) and John Bull in America (1825).

      The advantages and hardships of western migration are the theme of “The Backwoodsman” (1818), a poem written to call the American author home in his search of literary themes. Novels such as Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, a Story of the New World (1823), Westward Ho! (1832), and The Old Continental, or, the Price of Liberty (1846) represent Paulding's attempts to employ the American scene in fiction. His popular play, The Lion of the West (first performed 1831; first published 1954), introduced frontier humour to the stage by depicting a character resembling Davy Crockett (Crockett, Davy) and helped during the 1830s to contribute to the growing legend of Crockett. His Life of Washington (1835) illustrates Paulding's Americanism. Plain, even at times vulgar in style, he yet possessed a playful irony that he shared with the New York writers of his day. He held several public posts in New York and from 1838 to 1841 served as secretary of the navy. His literary work, however, overshadows his routine labours as a government official.

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