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Seventy-Six (novel)

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 2, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:30, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Author John Neal

Seventy-Six is a historical fiction novel by American writer John Neal. Published in Baltimore in 1823, it is the fourth novel written about the American Revolutionary War. Historically distinguished for its pioneering use of colloquial language, Yankee dialect, battle scene realism, high characterization, stream of consciousness narrative, profanity, and depictions of sex and romance, the novel foreshadowed and influenced later American fiction. With narrative prose that resembles spoken American English more than any other period literature, it was the first work of American fiction to use the phrase son-of-a-bitch. It explores male pain and self-loathing resulting from violent acts committed in war and duels. Inspired by his own historical research, Neal took only twenty-seven days to write the 528-page novel, reporting that "I tumbled out of my chair" because "I had fainted, – swooned, – from overwork." (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): John Neal (writer) on January 20, 2021
Main editors: Dugan Murphy
Promoted: November 19, 2021
Reasons for nomination: This is the second article I've seen through to FA that has been nominated for TFA. The first was John Neal (writer). Looking at recent TFAs, I'm not seeing anything else literature-related over the last few months. I don't see any reason to request a specific date. I'm excited to hopefully see this on the main page!
Support as nominator. Dugan Murphy (talk) 04:52, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Looks good to me, and nearly a year is enough lapsed time before a second Neal TFA. The only change I'd suggest is foreshadowed and influenced later American writers→...American writing, since it's not really possible to foreshadow a person. As an aside, you might want to wrap the Sources section in {{Refbegin}} ... {{Refend}} to adjust the font size. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:37, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdkb:Sources font size adjusted. Thanks for the recommendation. I also took your recommendation on the blurb, but then swapped out the last couple sentences with what I think makes it a little more interesting. Let me know if you have further thoughts on that or if that affects your support of the nomination. Dugan Murphy (talk) 00:31, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]