William Hill Brown (Nuwamba 1765 - Satumba 2, 1793) marubucin marubucin Ba'amurke ne, marubucin abin da galibi ake la'akari da littafin littafin Amurka na farko, The Power of Tausayi (1789), [1] da "Harriot, ko Sulhun Gida", [2] da kuma jerin muƙalar "Mai gyara", wanda aka buga a cikin Ishaya Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine .

William Hill Brown
Rayuwa
Haihuwa Boston, Nuwamba, 1765
ƙasa Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa North Carolina, 2 Satumba 1793
Karatu
Harsuna Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a Marubuci da marubuci

An haifi Brown a Boston, Massachusetts, ɗan Gawen Brown da matarsa ta uku, Elizabeth Hill Adams. Gawen Brown ya fito daga Northumberland, Ingila kuma ya kasance mai sarrafa agogo. [1] An yi wa William baftisma a cocin Hollis Street a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 1765.

A cikin 1789, William Brown ya buga labari The Power of Tausayi . Brown yana da masaniya mai yawa game da wallafe-wallafen Turai, misali na Clarissa na Samuel Richardson, [3] amma yayi ƙoƙari ya ɗaga wallafe-wallafen Amirka daga ƙungiyar Birtaniya ta hanyar zaɓin yanayin Amurka. Littafin ya kusan kwatanta da wani abin kunya na gida kuma daga baya an janye shi daga sayarwa. [4] Ya ba da gudummawar kasidu da yawa ga Columbian Centinel .

Kusan Oktoba 1792, Brown da kansa ya janye don shiga 'yar uwarsa, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, a gonar Hinchborne kusa da Murfreesboro, North Carolina, kuma ya fara karanta doka tare da William Richardson Davie a Halifax . Eliza ya mutu a watan Janairu 1793. Har yanzu bai saba da yanayin Gabashin Arewacin Carolina ba, William Brown ya mutu sakamakon zazzabi, mai yiwuwa zazzabin cizon sauro, a watan Agusta mai zuwa, yana da shekaru ashirin da bakwai. [5]

Brown ya yanke hukuncin cewa litattafan ya kamata su yi niyya da wani babban dalili na ɗabi'a. [6]

  • Harriot, ko Sulhun Gida (1789)
  • Ikon Tausayi (1789)
  • Zaɓaɓɓun Waƙoƙi da Tatsuniya 1784-1793 na William Hill Brown (bayan mutuwa) [7]
  • Ira da Isabella (1807) [8]

Manazarta

gyara sashe
  1. Brown, William Hill. The Power of Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p. xiv
  2. Originally published in January 1789 in The Massachusetts Magazine. Carla Mulford (ed.) (2002): Early American Writing. Oxford University Press. New York. p. 1084ff.
  3. name="Arner">Arner, Robert D. (January 7, 1973). "Sentiment and Sensibility: The Role of Emotion and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – via Project MUSE.
  4. "Brown, William Hill | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
  5. Byers, John R. (1978). "A Letter of William Hill Brown's". American Literature. 49 (4): 606–611. doi:10.2307/2924778 – via JSTOR.
  6. Arner, Robert D. (January 7, 1973). "Sentiment and Sensibility: The Role of Emotion and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – via Project MUSE.Arner, Robert D. (January 7, 1973). "Sentiment and Sensibility: The Role of Emotion and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – via Project MUSE.
  7. "Selected Poems and Verse Fables 1784-1793 by William Hill Brown".
  8. Brown, William Hill. The Power of Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p.xxii