Setting-in-“The-Legend-of-Sleepy-Hollow”睡谷传奇的背景分析.ppt

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Settingin“TheLegendofSleepyHollow”Time:inabout1790Place:intheDutchsettlementofTarryTown,NewYork,inasecludedglencalledSleepyHollowsetintheDutchcultureofPre-RevolutionaryWarinNewYorkState

HistoricalContextInitsearliestdays,NewYorkwassettledbytheDutch,orpeoplefromtheKingdomoftheNetherlands.Theyweresaidtobejolly,prosperous,well-fed,andfoolish.AlthoughtheterritoryeventuallycameunderBritishandthenAmericancontrol,theDutchpeoplewerestillnumerousandinfluentialthroughoutNewYorkinIrving’sday.

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