The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Essays and Criticism
- Sleepy Hollow as an Earthly Paradise
In this essay, the author discusses Irving's conception of Sleepy Hollow as an earthly paradise.
- Girls can Take Care of Themselves: Gender and Storytelling in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
In the following essay, Plummer and Nelson maintain that the women in Sleepy Hollow maintain their power through the tales that they tell. The tales of the women retain their strength as men measure their strength by defeating the evils in the women's tales and the women's tale of the Headless Horseman is a means of removing the aggressive Ichabod Crane from the maternally controlled Sleepy Hollow.
- The Man That Corrupted Sleepy Hollow
In the following essay, von Frank explores the various aspects of the evil in Ichabod Crane's personality and actions that necessitates Ichabod's eventual expulsion from the community.
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