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Washington Irving was one of the first notable fiction writers of the American romantic movement (Keenan 970). His sketch book with tales such as Rip Van Winkle made Irving the first American author to attain an international reputation (Fender 165). Whereas Irvings prior work, the History of New York (1809) is written in a neoclassical1 tone right in the sense the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, The Sketch Book [...], showed that Irving had gradually become a romanticist (cf. Callow and Reilly

Seminar paper aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, The University of the South, Sewanee (Tennessee / USA), Veranstaltung: ENGL 377: American Literature I, 1 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch.

Lazy Rip Van Winkle ´´would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound,´´ much to the dismay of his wife. After an afternoon in the Catskill Mountains ends in an enchanted, twenty-year sleep, Rip discovers that his children have grown up without him. He´s even slept through the American Revolutionary War! But does he learn his lesson? From nineteenth-century author Washington Irving come two cautionary tales that will broaden your vocabulary and challenge you to think.

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you read the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In Rip Van Winkle he makes a profound social comment about the changes happening in his America, and Sleepy Hollow isn´t just a chilling tale about the Headless Horseman but an enchanting story about two rival suitors.

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