December
23, 2010
William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy is considered to be the first American novel.
December
23, 2010
William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy is considered to be the first American novel.
Primary Works
The power of sympathy, (1789). Edited by William S. Kable. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1970. PS715.B6 P6Selected poems and verse fables, 1784-1793 by William Hill Brown; edited by Richard Walser. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1982. PS715 .B6 A6
Selected Bibliography
Arner, Robert D. "William Hill Brown." in Elliott, Emory. ed. American Writers of the Early Republic. Detroit: Gale, 1985.
Barnes, Elizabeth. "Natural and National Unions: Incest and Sympathy in the Early Republic." in Barnes, Elizabeth. ed. Incest and the Literary Imagination. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2002.
Dillon, Elizabeth M. "The Original American Novel, or, the American Origin of the Novel." in Backscheider, Paula R. and Ingrassia, Catherine. eds. A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Fluck, Winfried. "Reading Early American Fiction." in Castillo, Susan and Schweitzer, Ivy. eds. A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Kable, William S. The Power of Sympathy. Columbus: Ohio State U.P., 1969.
MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 2: William Hill Brown." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/brown_william.html (provide page date or date of your login).