Unit 7 America Literature Early Fiction The post-Revolutionary period. ?Washington Irving: History of New York, Tour on Prairies. ?James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy, the Leather-Stocking Tales (containing The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer) Transcendentalists ?Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature ?Henry David Thoreau: Walden Power of Imagination ?Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” ?Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-To