How does Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" connect with the American Romanticism period?

connects with the American Romantic period
in its use of the staple themes of Gothic literature, much similar to actual Romantics such as
Poe, Wilde, Stoker, Shelley, etc.

The typical themes of Romantic/Gothic
literature include:

• The use of the supernatural


• Dark atmospheres symbolizing a fear of the unknown
• The
  inevitability of fate and death
• A path leading to


• Nostalgia and Fear
• The battle of good...