The Romantic American Male in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans and Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Cooper's last Mohawk and the legendary sleeping space of the legendary sleeping space of Owen The legendary sleeping space of the last Mohawk and Washington Irving of Romantic American men James Fenimoa Cooper is valuable of the literary weight of the romantic era As an example, you can also use Describe the sociological change of men before and after romance. However, when considering the social reflection of their work, Cooper and Irving's work should not be far away from their cultural background, so explore the basic historical conditions surrounding the concept of male change It can be a useful move.

As early as 1818, William Karen Bryant's "To Waterbird" can see romantic American poetry. American romantic Gothic literature first appeared in Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleeping Valley" (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819), and in 1823 James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales appeared. In his popular novel "The End of the Mohicans" Cooper expressed a romantic ideal of the relationship between man and nature. These works emphasize the mythical boundary consisting of heroic simplicity and explanation of fanatical landscape and exotic emotion "noble barbarians". The story about Edgar Allan Poe's terrorism and his folk poetry is more influential in France than France, but the romantic American novel is a complete play in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Red Letter" (1850) atmosphere and melodrama .

Romanticism encourages literary writing with a remarkable emotional effect. In the early 19th century, Washington's Sleep of Hollow, James Finnemore Cooper (last Mohican), The Pit and Pendulum were genius writers. However, in the early 1850s, in addition to Thoreau's Walden, American writers also created a series of splendid classics and built the golden era of American literature. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Hawthorne announced "Red Letter" and "Seven Gable Houses", Herman Melville announced "Moby Dick", and Walter Whitman announced. The grass leaves. "These are America's unique writers who write their American theme and are immersed in local transcendence from the unique point of view of America. Until now, American literature is considered a second if it is taken into account.