Revolutionary and Late 1700s

• The Federalist


  Written by John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
• Common Sense, Crisis, Age of Reason

  Written by Thomas Paine (controversial book expounding deism)
• The Rights of Man


  Written by Thomas Paine (defends French Revolution)
• Hartford Wits


  • John Trumbull - M'Fingal (American Revolution: Scotch-American Tory orator M'Fingal is tarred and feathered and repents)
  • Timothy Dwight (grandson of Jonathan Edwards) - The Conquest of Canaan, The Triumph of Infidelity, Greenfield Hill
  • Joel Barlow - Hasty Pudding
• House of Night


  Written by Philip Freneau
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa the African


  Written by Olaudah Equiano (freed slave)
• Power of Sympathy


  Written by William Brown (first American novel; Harrington can't marry Harriot Fawcett because she is his half-sister; both die)
• Modern Chivalry


  Written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge (Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan travel, seeing unqualified office holders, including Teague)
• Wieland or the Transformation

  Written by Charles Brown (first American novel popular in Europe)
• Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly


  Written by Charles Brown