American novels

The novel, as a literary form, appeared late in America. In the colonial period, those who had the skill to write served the cause of religion and politics. There was religious forever. In America, the Puritans established a Congregationalist Church, in close association with their political rules. Church priests ever appointed by ability rather then by official patronage.

Surprisingly, with in a hundred years, the America novel became independent of the British novel. After the First World War, the American novel excelled the British novel, a fact accepted by the British novelists them selves. The Puritans believed in the Bible as the source of all authority.

There is a controversy about what should be considered to be an American novel. It is more appropriate to confer the states of the first American novel on a work of fiction, which deals with a characterless American theme and technique. Large numbers of novels were written in the eighteenth and early  nineteenth centuries.