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Thomas Attwood Diggers: A Literary Analysis

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It was in the late eightieth and early ninetieth centuries that the nation's first novels were published. These fictions were too lengthy to be printed as manuscript or public reading. Publishers took a chance on these works in hopes they would become steady sellers and need to be reprinted. This was a good bet as literacy rates soared in this period among both men and women. Among the first American novels are Thomas Attwood Diggers' Adventures of Alonse , published in London in 1775 and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy published in 1791.
Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fell in love without knowing they were related. This epistolary novel belongs to the Sentimental novel tradition, as do the two
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