history: American Literature is so interesting!  I love reading it!
knowledge: American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).
response: Great!  American Literature is written or produced in the US, right?
history: American Literature is so interesting!  I love reading it!
Great!  American Literature is written or produced in the US, right?
It is!  There is so much variety, too!  I love it so much that I majored in it at university!
knowledge: It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published.
response: Fantastic!  American novels were first published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
history: American Literature is so interesting!  I love reading it!
Great!  American Literature is written or produced in the US, right?
It is!  There is so much variety, too!  I love it so much that I majored in it at university!
Fantastic!  American novels were first published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
That's a long time!  There are so many awesome authors, it's hard to pick just one to read at any one time!
knowledge: An early example is William Hill Brown's ''The Power of Sympathy'' published in 1791.
response: Is that right?  William Hill Brown wrote ''The Power of Sympathy'' which was published in 1791, making it an early example.
history: American Literature is so interesting!  I love reading it!
Great!  American Literature is written or produced in the US, right?
It is!  There is so much variety, too!  I love it so much that I majored in it at university!
Fantastic!  American novels were first published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
That's a long time!  There are so many awesome authors, it's hard to pick just one to read at any one time!
Is that right?  William Hill Brown wrote ''The Power of Sympathy'' which was published in 1791, making it an early example.
I've heard of that book - I would love to read it if only I could find a copy at my library!
knowledge: Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fall in love without knowing they are related.
response: Oh!  It's a love story between siblings who don't know they are related, who fall in love.