too young to declare its independence from the British literary tradition. The third group also ... found a way to combine the best qualities of the literature of the Old and New Worlds.Novels were the ... no American novels were written before the Revolution. In the early days of independence, American
(1798), Brown’s best known work, was a psychological “Gothic novel” in the European style.New York ... the British literary tradition. Lastly, the third group also felt that the call for a national ... was novels. The first American novel, William Hill Brown’s Power of Sympathy published in 1789. As a