As a reaction to the industrial revolution, the Romantic movement developed.People left their villages and started to craw cities. The growth of industry brought changes in society.Science and reason were held in high regard in the United States as well as in Europe in the 1700s.Irving writings were largely responsible for changing these attitudes.As a result Americans viewed poetry and fiction useless, and looked upon creative writing with disdain.Having recently gained their independence, Americans feared that English taste would become the norm, and thus viewed art as the product of old wealth, and social privilege.Americans of the time rejected artistic activities as unpatriotic, and there were arguments about whose standards would determine national culture.One ironic theme is that while supposedly the wise schoolmaster is to teach the children of town, his deep superstition shows him to be a font of surface his freeloading.Katrina however dashs the freeloading Crane hopes of marriage by refuting his suit to marry her. Ichabod's appetite is thus a metaphor for the devouring of Tarry Town's innocence, along with that of the young Katrina Van Tassel. Thus the portrayal of Ichabod Crane, an outsider with a hunger for riches is representative of New York views. The theme of the poor native against the rich invader became common to the times.New Yorkers complained that they were always on the move compared to the New York society which was more rooted and conservative.They believed them to be cold and calculating people interested only in money. Irving and the New Yorkers viewed the New Englanders with mistrust.It depicts the climax of the story when the Headless Horseman hurls his head (actually a Jack O' Lantern) at Ichabod Crane.
This oil painting that hangs in the Smithsonian Art Museum was painted in 1858 by John Quidor. The story of Sleepy Hollow has been recreated in various formats since its initial publication in 1820. After having encountered the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, Crane flees town, and Katrina ends up marrying another suitor, Brom Bones. The main character is the superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who falls in love with Katrina, the daughter of wealthy farmer Baltus Van Tassel. The story is set in the American countryside around 1790, in the Dutch settlement Tarry Town, and the small glen Sleepy Hollow, surrounded with ghost stories. 3.2 Art and Progress of the early 1800's.
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