1. Author and editor Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. Irving achieved international fame for his fictional works, including the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as for his biographies and historical writings. Irving served as the United Sta...

Throughout "Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving creates a feature of a henpecked husband, Rip, who goes to the mountain to avoid his wife, but finds that he has slept for twenty years and wakes after the American Revolution. While reading "Rip Van Winkle", I found that it goes t...

Looking in depth into the history of American Literature can be a very interesting thing. Digging deeper into the writings and tying them in with personal values and ties can make these early writings very meaningful. The people of this time started to read not only for the fact of just to read, b...

Rip Van Winkle: The Stallion In Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle, the main character, Rip Van Winkle, is presented as "a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen pecked husband." He is depicted as the victim of a vicious prank that causes him to sleep twenty years. His disappearance in...

The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time where the people of America had a deep apprec...