Washington Irving

Sleepy Hollow is a cold, foggy, place that barely anyone visits. It is where the legend of the Headless Horseman began. They say that the Headless Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who got his head shot off by a cannonball in the Civil War, and has been searching for his head on the path of the Sleepy Hollow bridge ever since. Brom Van Brunt is a very muscular, charismatic man who lives in Sleepy Hollow. He has a crush on a young woman named Katrina, who is extensively the most…

The year was 1997. Rip Van Winkle is lying in bed and dreading going to work. Rip was pay phone technician with Bellsouth. He was rather lazy so this job suited him perfectly. All he had to do was drive around and repair pay phones and collect the money. Rip had been married for fifteen years. During these fifteen years, he had been bossed around daily by his wife. Today wasn’t any different. His wife, Dame Van Winkle, stormed into the bedroom and demanded that he get up. Rip replied to her in…

stark contrast of various authors, there are similarities that are way too often overlooked or just unconsidered. Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving were authors most renowned for their short stories during the Romantic Era of literature, each having their own unique style. Poe was known for his use of horror and the dark characteristics of human nature, and Irving for his use of fantasy and humor of different varieties. Two seemingly different approaches to literature by two seemingly…

Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe were both writers who embodied the writing style of the Romantic era. In comparison, each of the writing styles of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe are very similar, in regard to their extensive use of descriptive passages. But they are vastly different due to the settings they use to develop their stories. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, written by Washington Irving and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, are both tales in…

Dark romanticism tends to be know with the idea of darkness in human souls, the concept of sin, or a certain dark outlook on society in general. An Example of a Dark Romantic piece is “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving. Romantic literature, such as 'The Devil and Tom Walker,' often references the supernatural. In the story Tom is haunted by a man who he calls the devil. It was not uncommon for people of this era to believe that one could make deals with the devil in a horrible…

whereas many of the works throughout the Colonial period seem to be centered around God and religion, the Federalist period’s emphasis on these themes is less pronounced. In Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, the protagonist of the story, Rip Van Winkle, goes “to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains,” (Irving 4) and encounters an individual dressed in dated attire. Van Winkle stops to help the mysterious man with items that he is carrying, pausing every now and then as sounds…

Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, has many characteristics in it. They main characteristics in it is the setting, characters, and events. All of these characteristica impacted either the story or the readers experience of the story. The setting of Rip Van Winkle is in the Revolutionary America time period, given by the portraits in the Inn. It was in New York and took place in the Kaatskill (now Catskill) Mountains. The Kaatskill Mountains are a branch of the great Appalachian family, that…

Gothic writers because of how their romantic short stories will often end in tragedy. These early American fiction writers were Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. I will be clarifying how Washington, Nathaniel, and Edgar use different writing unique styles, various literary themes, and forms in each of their short stories. Washington Irving was a Gothic short fiction writer who was born in New York City on April 3, 1783.…

Bald Eagle Times #58 Music in WWII To the faithful readers of the Bald Eagles Times: In contrast to the other recently published articles, this is not your typical war story. In fact, it is not even directly related to the war. It is actually a story of the evolution of music leading up to and even throughout the war. Music, it is safe to say, is what kept the nation together. It gave us a fallback which we could all enjoy, regardless of our situation in life, race, or economical status. In…

Not only was Irving able to manipulate the concept of cognitive authority in his two books, but Holocaust revisionists in general have been able to manipulate cognitive authority of historians in other ways. Deborah Lipstadt, in her book Denying the Holocaust, offers a great insight on just how Irving and other revisionists have been able to become so prominent. She says that revisionists have been able to gain some amount of authority by “camouflaging their goals” (Lipstadt 1993). They hide…