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who is the ist american novelist​

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Answered by ItzMissLegend
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The 1820s saw the emergence of the United States' first critically and economically successful novelist with James Fenimore Cooper.

Answered by srivikashraja57
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While most historians of the modern novel trace its beginnings to Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605, 1616) and its English-language origins are often located in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), the novel did not truly emerge in the United States until the end of the eighteenth century. Critics and historians have offered several reasons for this delay, citing a continuing Puritan distrust of fictional representations, a relative lack of leisure time, and, relatedly, the lack of a large, concentrated group of middle-class readers with substantial enough wealth and time to pursue the genre. Most accounts of the development of the novel, such as Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel, Michael

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