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Washington Irving

Washington Irving. Irving as Early Romanticist. descriptions of Nature’s beauty his utilization of gothic imagery Gothic literature --poetry, short stories, or novels designed to thrill readers by providing mystery, villainy, murder, and the supernatural

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Washington Irving

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  1. Washington Irving

  2. Irving as Early Romanticist • descriptions of Nature’s beauty • his utilization of gothic imagery • Gothic literature--poetry, short stories, or novels designed to thrill readers by providing mystery, villainy, murder, and the supernatural • belief that man was inherently good and would act nobly without incentive to do so

  3. A Writer of “Firsts” • first belletrist in American literature • belleslettres—”literature regarded as a fine art, esp. as having a purely aesthetic function”; Irving wrote for pleasure at a time when writing was pragmatic • first American literary humorist • first to write history and biography as entertainment • introduced nonfiction prose as a literary genre

  4. A Writer of “Firsts” • First 19th century American writer to achieve international literary reputation • First American writer to support himself solely through writing

  5. A Writer of Pseudonyms • Jonathan Oldstyle • Dietrich Knickerbocker • Geoffrey Crayon

  6. Important Works • Salgamundi (Papers) • A History of New York • The Sketch Book • A Tour of the Prairies

  7. Hudson River School • Themes in the art: • Discovery • Exploration • Settlement • Pastoral America

  8. Thomas Cole—Landscape, 1825

  9. John Frederick Kensett—Connecticut Shoreline in Autumn

  10. Albert Bierstadt—Sierra Nevada Mountains

  11. Asher Durand—Kindred Spirits

  12. Rip van Winkle Themes • Loss/discovery of identity • challenge to American values and work ethic • Anti-republicanism--George III vs. George Washington

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