1、WashingtonIrving目录AppreciationofhisworksIntroductionofAmericanRomanticismIntroductionofW.IrvingIrving’scontributiontoAmericanLiteratureAmericanRomanticism(1810s-1860s)The Romantic Period covers the first half of the 19th century. A rising America with its ideals of democracy and
2、 equality, its industrialization, its western expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such as Sir Walter Scott were among the important factors which made literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in the period immediately following the natio
3、n’s political independence. Yet,Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man’s societies a source of corruption. Romantic values were promi
4、nent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War. The romantic exaltation of the individual suited the nation’s revolutionary heritage and its frontier egalitarianism.AboutIrvingWorksofIrvingPositioninAmericanLiteratureBriefintroductionofIrvingIntroductionofW.I
