Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York 1964) Chapter 1: "Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting the contrast between the ideal Arcadia and the corrupting influences of civilization, it was innovative in the sense that it introduced to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith an...

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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York 1964) Chapter 1: "Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting the contrast between the ideal Arcadia and the corrupting influences of civilization, it was innovative in the sense that it introduced to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith an...

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This essay analyses the main characteristics of American Neoclassicism and Romanticism that are the most strongly present in Irving's Sketch Book as well as the contributions of Irving to American Literature. ... In "Traits of Indian Character," Irving writes a defense in the name of Native Americans; he says that "the whites have too frequently set them an example of violence by burning their villages and laying waste their slender means of subsistence; and yet they wonder that savages do not show moderation and magnanimity toward those who have left them nothing but mere existence and w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate