history: I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
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: Well, for starters, American literature is written or produces in the US, but also includes literature from the colonial era.
history: I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
Well, for starters, American literature is written or produces in the US, but also includes literature from the colonial era.
Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?
knowledge: Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature.
response: I couldn't say, but the East-coast British colonies were influence heavily by English literature.
history: I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
Well, for starters, American literature is written or produces in the US, but also includes literature from the colonial era.
Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?
I couldn't say, but the East-coast British colonies were influence heavily by English literature.
Ah, OK. When did it become American literature?
knowledge: It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published.
response: I'm not sure, but the first American novels were published in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
history: I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
Well, for starters, American literature is written or produces in the US, but also includes literature from the colonial era.
Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?
I couldn't say, but the East-coast British colonies were influence heavily by English literature.
Ah, OK. When did it become American literature?
I'm not sure, but the first American novels were published in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
I had no idea they went back that far!
knowledge: An early example is William Hill Brown's ''The Power of Sympathy'' published in 1791.
response: Yes, one example of such novels is The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown.
history: I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
Well, for starters, American literature is written or produces in the US, but also includes literature from the colonial era.
Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?
I couldn't say, but the East-coast British colonies were influence heavily by English literature.
Ah, OK. When did it become American literature?
I'm not sure, but the first American novels were published in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
I had no idea they went back that far!
Yes, one example of such novels is The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown.
What is the subject matter on that one?
knowledge: An early example is William Hill Brown's ''The Power of Sympathy'' published in 1791.
response: I don't really know. It came out in 1791.