Misc on M & D time: First American novel, 1789, epistolary as Kai mentioned.

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > The first North American novel, /The History of Emily Montague/ 
(1769) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.<

Have neither read the one nor the other.

On 21.01.2015 16:09, Mark Kohut wrote:
> The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an
> 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by
> William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American
> novel.[1]
>
>

On 11.01.2015, I wrote:

 >> Perhaps Pynchon wanted to pay homage to the epistolary novel which 
was so very popular in the 18th century?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel


On 10.01.2015 13:01, Mark Kohut wrote:
Before I move onto Chapter 3---although I have more Chap 1 research 
residue..

We've got to talk--respond to maybe?--my post on Chap 2. Those
not-even-introduced
letters. Why are they there? What show?
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