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Perry Miller

    25 februari 1905 – 9 december 1963

    Perry Miller was een sleutelfiguur in de Amerikaanse intellectuele geschiedenis, bekend om zijn diepgaande studie van het Amerikaanse puritanisme. Als een van de grondleggers van de American Studies, pionierde hij met een culturele benadering om historische wereldbeelden te begrijpen, waarbij hij de focus verlegde van eerdere psychologische en economische analyses. Zijn gedegen academische werk belichtte complexe ideeën en vormde de studie van het Amerikaanse denken aanzienlijk. Millers invloed reikte verder dan de academische wereld, waarbij hij toekomstige geleerden begeleidde en literaire persoonlijkheden inspireerde.

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
    The American Puritans
    Errand Into the Wilderness
    • The title of this book by Perry Miller, a world-famous interpreter of the American past, nearly poses the question it has been his lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? Miller emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen.

      Errand Into the Wilderness1975
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    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Other Stories by Washington Irving was first published in 1819 or 1820. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Other Stories includes the most famous of Washington Irving's works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Christmas Day.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the story of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut who has moved to the New York countryside settlement of Tarry Town whose secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow is haunted by an infamous spectre, the Headless Horseman. Rip Van Winkle tells the tale of a Dutch-American villager living during the time of the American Revolution. He mysteriously falls asleep in New York's Catskill Mountains only to discover when he awakes that many years have passed and much has changed. Christmas Day is a tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas.

      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories1961