Abstract：Abstract: Although the history of American fiction is not as long as that of British fiction and the aesthetic representations by the British and American writers are different, there is no doubt that they are both interrelated and interactive. As mental food for the pioneers on the New Continent, early British fiction not only helped to disseminate the ideas of Puritanism and Enlightenment, but also gave an impetus to the birth of American fiction. This paper aims to discuss the influence of early British fiction on the New Continent, explore its aesthetic enticement and exemplary role for the early practitioners of American fiction, and demonstrate its important function in developing the transatlantic intellectual interaction in the 18th century. Meanwhile the paper provides a detailed analysis of all kinds of factors arising from the interrelationship and interaction between British and American fiction.
