The fictions Margolis examines--by
Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe.
Their American cohort is represented by
Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe, while Honore de Balzac, Eugene Sue, and a handful of pioneering Scandinavians draw our attention to continental developments.
Though not a systematic survey, Gardner's study highlights the important examples of notable editors, publishers, and contributors, from Noah Webster, Mathew Carey, and Isaiah Thomas to Judith Sargent Murray, Susanna Rowson,
Charles Brockden Brown, and Washington Irving.
Naturally, an English literature course might include: Beowulf, Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or The Picture of Dorian Grey, while an American literature survey might showcase the monsters of
Charles Brockden Brown, Hawthorne or Poe, Melville's Moby Dick, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, or those born of Joyce Carol Oates.
The early American novelist
Charles Brockden Brown thought that history was for men's lives, while the intimacy of fiction was for women's.
Gardner's chapter-length introduction addresses the 'unsettling' of the early American novel in favour of the magazine form, as advanced by
Charles Brockden Brown.
Their collection of essays, Transatlantic Literary Exchanges 1790-1870: Gender, Race and Nation, features interdisciplinary readings of the work of Herman Melville,
Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Douglass, alongside essays on race, gender, the adventure novel, tourism and economics--a range of concerns which reflect the series' aim of challenging established disciplinary boundaries by encompassing topics such as travel, diaspora, slavery and revolution.
This third volume features essays on Cooper,
Charles Brockden Brown, and Robert Montgomery Bird, as well as topics such as 18th-century letter-writing, slavery, Indian-hating, and pirates.
from Rutgers University, writing a dissertation entitled "Perverse Pilgrimage: The Role of the Gothic in the Works of
Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture.
While such reflections are not the overt context for Wood's comparisons of works by writers such as Thomas Brackenridge, Royall Tyler,
Charles Brockden Brown, Tabitha Gilman Tenny, and Washington Irving, the privileged status of certain kinds of discourse in the New World, particularly published, European, discourses, is the book's informing framework.
In December 1798, a 27 year old American novelist from Pennsylvania named
Charles Brockden Brown sent a copy of his first novel, Wieland; Or The Transformation.
