The Power of Sympathy is widely considered to be the first American novel, and it was originally sold for a price of nine shillings. In order to divert Puritan concern about the novel's seedy topics of sex and incest, Brown promoted it as a morality tale. William Hill Brown was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy () and "Harriot, Or The Domestick Reconciliation" as well as the serial essay "The Reformer" published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine. In both, Brown proves an extensive knowledge of European literature for example of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson /5. The Power of Sympathy is widely considered to be the first American novel, and it was originally sold for a price of nine shillings. In order to divert Puritan concern about the novel's seedy topics of sex and incest, Brown promoted it as a morality tale.
William Hill Brown THE POWER OF SYMPATHY £4 Edited by William S. Kable The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, was dedicated, "with esteem and sincerity, by their friend and humble servant, the author," "to the Young Ladies of United Columbia" and was "intended to represent the specious causes and to expose. The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette. William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster. Penguin, Nov 1, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's The Power of Sympathy () and Foster's The Coquette () were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. The Power of Sympathy. William Hill Brown. Penguin, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's 'The Power of Sympathy' () and Foster's 'The Coquette' () were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation.
The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, was dedicated, "with esteem and sincerity, by their friend and humble servant, the author," "to the Young Ladies of United Columbia" and was "intended to represent the specious causes and to expose the fatal consequences of SEDUCTION; to inspire the female mind with a principle of self-complacency, and to promote the economy of human life." The book enjoyed only a modest circulation following its initial appearance in The power of sympathy / by William Hill Brown and the coquette. by. Brown, William Hill, ; Foster, Hannah Webster, Coquette. Publication date. Topics. Whitman, Elizabeth, Publisher. Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s 'The Power of Sympathy' ().
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