Question

What kind of book is the Power of Sympathy?

Answer 1

The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature is an 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel.

Answer 2

'The Power of Sympathy' is a novel by the American author William Hill Brow, and it is considered to be the first American novel.

It is written in epistolary form, as a series of documents.

With its publication by Isaiah Thomas and Company of Boston in 1789, this book became the very first novel written by an American that was set in America and printed for publication in America.

The novel deals with the characters' struggles with seduction and infidelity, while advocating the moral education of women and the use of rational thinking as a way to prevent such cause of actions.