J. Ross Browne Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 15 pages of information about the life of J. Ross Browne.

J. Ross Browne Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 15 pages of information about the life of J. Ross Browne.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on J. Ross Browne

J. Ross Browne (for his first name, John) is routinely cited as a minor literary influence on Herman Melville and Mark Twain. His Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar; with a History of the Whale Fishery (1846), for instance, has long been considered by critics to have inspired key aspects of Moby-Dick (1851). Readers since the mid nineteenth century have also recognized more than a few striking similarities between several of Browne's travel narratives written in the 1850s and 1860s and Twain's Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and A Tramp Abroad (1880).

While such distinctions have proved helpful in sustaining limited interest in Browne's writings in the last century and a half, he clearly deserves recognition in his own right. A nascent realist, Browne crusaded against romantic literature a generation before American writers collectively took up the cause of literary realism. Although Browne...

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