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Preromantic fiction and American Romanticism - major writers

Charles Brockden Broun

-    “Wieland” (1798)

Developed interest in strange mental States and inner disorders The innocent American paradise is laden with dark secrets.

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Major works:

-    “A History ofNew York" (1809)

"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." (1819) - including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hol Iow"

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) - his father founded a city

"The Deerslayer” - The First War Patii

"The Last ofthe Mohicons" - A Narrative of 1757

"The Pathfinder" - The Inland Sea

"The Pioneers" - The Sonrces of the Susquehanna; A Deseńption Tale "The Praire" A Tale

He was the first American novelist to achieve worldwide famę. His stories were translated into foreign languages as soon as they were published. He wrote about American Indians and pioneers in the forests and sailors on the liigli seas.