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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Sources)

 
Notes on Short Stories: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Sources)

Contents:

Introduction
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
Criticism
Further Reading


Sources

Bowden, Mary Weatherspoon. Washington Irving, Boston: Twayne, 1981, p. 72.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett. The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966, pp. 3, 6, 34, 126-27.

Hedges, William L. Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965, p. 142.

Hoffman, Daniel G. Form and Fable in American Fiction, New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.

______. “Irving’s Use of American Folklore in ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’” in PMLA, Vol. 68, June, 1953, pp. 425-435.

Jeffrey, Francis. Review of The Sketch Book, in Edinburgh Review, Vol. 34, August, 1820, pp. 160-76.

Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975, pp. 68- 70.

Leary, Lewis. “Washington Irving and the Comic Imagination,” in The Comic Imagination in American Literature, ed. Louis D. Rubin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1973, pp. 63-76.

Martin, Terence. “Rip, Ichabod, and the American Imagination,” in American Literature, Vol. 31, May, 1959, pp. 137-149.

Pataj, Edward F. “Washington Irving’s Ichabod Crane: American Narcissus,” in American Imago, Vol. 38, Spring, 1981, pp. 127-35.

Plummer, Laura, and Michael Nelson. “‘Girls Can Take Care of Themselves’; Gender and Storytelling in Washington Irving’s ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993, pp. 175-84.

Pochmann, Henry A. “Irving’s German Tour and Its Influence on His Tales,” in PMLA, Vol. 45, December, 1930, pp. 1150-87.

_________. “Irving’s German Sources in The Sketch Book,” in Studies in Philology, Vol. 27, July, 1930, pp. 477-507.

Theocritus. “Idyll VII,” in The Greek Bucolic Poets, translated by J. E. Edmonds, Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb Library, 1938, lines 135-46.

von Frank, Albert J. “The Man That Corrupted Sleepy Hollow,” in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1987, pp. 129-143.


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