The early-American fiction writers Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe contributed significantly to the American literary canon with their unique styles of writing and their varied literary themes and forms. Analyze and research th

The critical essay must follow classic essay structure: the introduction with thesis, the body, and the conclusion. The body of the essay must support the thesis by using information and examples from the assigned readings and must include additional, documented information from four to six primary and secondary credible sources. (For definitions of primary and secondary sources, please access this link: https://library.ithaca.edu/sp/subjects/primary.) Your textbook may count as only one source, regardless of the number of literary works that you cite from it. You are required to obtain at least two sources from the library’s databases, such as the Literature Resource Center and the History Study Center. Wikipedia, Shmoop University, and Spark Notes are not credible sources for academic writing. All paraphrases and quotations from your sources, including your textbook, must be documented in strict accordance with MLA eighth-edition standards. The documentation must include attributive phrases and/or in-text citations and a works-cited page. You may refer to the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University for updated MLA information and examples: email@email.email.