Chapter 2: Early American Literature: 1700-1800 - William Hill Brown (1765 1793)

Primary Works

The power of sympathy, (1789). Edited by William S. Kable. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1970. PS715.B6 P6

Selected 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. "Sentiment and Sensibility: The Role of Emotion and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy." Studies in American Fiction 1 (1973): 121-32.

Barnes, Elizabeth. "Affecting Relations: Pedagogy, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Sympathy." American Literary History 8.4 (Wint 1996): 597-614.

Byers, John R., Jr. "Further Verification of the Authorship of The Power of Sympathy." American Literature 43 (1971): 421-27.

- - -. "A Letter of William Hill Brown's." American Literature 49 (1978): 606-11.

Dalke, Anne. "Original Vice: The Political Implications of Incest in the Early American Novel." Early American Literature 23.2 (1988): 188-201.

Davidson, Cathy N. "The Power of Sympathy Reconsidered: William Hill Brown as Literary Craftsman." Early American Literature 10 (1975): 14-29.

Evans, Gareth. "Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction." Canadian Review of American Studies 25.3 (1995): 41-62.

Parker, G. F. "A Kind of Sympathy with Power Grandeur and the Literary Imagination circa 1789." Cambridge Quarterly 16.3 (1987): 225-43.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "Two Editions of Eighteenth Century Fiction." Early American Literature 6 (1971): 274-83.

Verhoeven, W. M. "'Persuasive Rhetorick': Representation and Resistance in Early American Epistolary Fiction." Making America/Making American Literature. Eds. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 123-64.

Walser, Richard. "Boston's Reception of the First American Novel." Early American Literature 17.1 (Sprg 1982): 65-74.

White, Devon. "Contemporary Criticism of Five Early American Sentimental Novels, 1970-1994: An Annotated Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 52.4 (Dec 1995): 293-305.

Young, Philip. "'First American Novel': The Power of Sympathy, in Place." College Literature 11.2 (Sprg 1984): 115-24.

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