Washington Irving


 * First American born author to gain acclaim
 * Similar to British Romanticism
 * Has the ability to abandon questions of morality and ignore the spectacle of man in society rise of romanticism and repeated discovery of realism
 * Battery between the two ensues
 * WI was a professional writer! one of the first we've covered in class
 * Wrote satirical sketches for his brother's newspaper
 * Wrote The History of New York, a parody all writing
 * First significant book by an American,
 * Took America a while for America to become a culture that could produce art
 * Rip Van Winkle
 * Framed by Diedrich Knickerbocker