Download After the Revolutionary War, the United States gradually

After the Revolutionary War, the United States gradually developed a separate
cultural identity from Great Britain. In this subunit, we will read texts from what are
considered the first generation of great American writers. James Fenimore Cooper
and Washington Irving set their works in the United States and were responsible for
creating and crystallizing ideas about American culture and landscape that remain
common in American literature and imagination to this day. If you have heard the
legend of Rip Van Winkle or seen a western movie or television show, you have seen
evidence of the influence of these authors.