In Rip Van Winkle, why do you think it is significant that the portrait of King George is replaced by the portrait of George Washington and Van Winkle cannot tell the difference between the two?
As we move forward, keep an eye on how these writers use nature. The Puritans saw nature as threatening. The devil lurked the woods and tempted people to sign his book. The town and the city is where reason and God prevailed. Many of the Romantic writers reject this notion, arguing that the city and […]