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1. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edited with an introd. by Warner Berthoff by Charles Brockden (1771-1810) Brown | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1962)
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2. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edited with an introd. by Warner Berthoff by Charles Brockden (1771-1810) Brown | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1965)
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3. Edgar Huntleyor, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 Brown | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2005-06-01)
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4. Arthur MervynOr, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 Brown | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2006-06-05)
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5. Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 Brown | |
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(2005-07-01)
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6. Charles Brockden Brown : Three Gothic Novels : Wieland / Arthur Mervyn / Edgar Huntly (Library of America) by Charles Brockden Brown | |
Hardcover: 925
Pages
(1998-08-01)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Here you will encounter a young man, newly arrived in the city of Philadelphia, caught in the grip of the yellow fever, whose employer is revealed as an adulterous, murderous fiend (Arthur Mervyn). You will be introduced to the protagonist of Edgar Huntly, whose efforts to unmask the killer of his best friend launch him into a somnabulent landscape drenched with the blood of cougars and Indians. And, in Wieland, you will confront, along with Clara, the dreadful threat posed by the master of ventriloquism! You may scoff at such terrors, O jaded reader, steeped in the demonic gore and Freudian underpinnings of contemporary horror and suspense, but know this--the outpourings of the fevered imagination of Charles Brockden Brown--who lived and wrote well before Poe, before Lovecraft--are a vital source of the power the Gothic continues to have over the American reader today. V.C. Andrews, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Patterson ... these and so many more (even, some whisper, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) live under the gloomy shadow of Brown's melodramas. How long, reader, before you, too, have succumbed to their 18th-century charms? Customer Reviews (5)
Wieland . . . a wonderfully written story
Dark Patriarch
a seminal classic Wieland, his first novel, tells the story of a religious fanatic who builds a temple in the seclusion of hisown farm, but then is struck dead, apparently by spontaneous combustion.Several years later, hischildren, in turn, begin to hear voices around the family property, voices which alternately seem to becommanding good or evil and which at times imitate denizens of the farm.Are the voices somehowconnected to a mysterious visitor who has begun hanging around?Are they commands from God? From demons?Suffice it to say things get pretty dicey before we find out the truth. This is a terrific creepy story which obviously influenced the course of American fiction.Browndevelops an interesting serious theme of the role that reason can play in combating superstition andreligious mania, but keeps the action cranking and the mood deliciously gloomy.The language iscertainly not modern but it is accessible and generally understandable.It's a novel that should be better known and more widely read, if not for historical reasons then just because it's great fun. GRADE: A
Almost good enough
Almost good enough |
7. Wieland, or the Transformation (Literary Classics Series) by Charles Brockden Brown | |
Paperback: 234
Pages
(1997-11)
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I HATED IT!
Great Gothic!
A Classic of American Gothic Horror The story is an Americanized Gothic romance.The spirit of Gothic literature pervades the tale, but the setting has been transferred from old castles and courtly settings to a recognizably American rural landscape which is preeminently beautiful rather than spooky.The horrors described so effectively by Brown are borne in the minds of the characters.The female protagonist Clara narrates the tortured history of her family.Her father dies mysteriously, perhaps by spontaneous combustion, ostensibly due to his failure to follow God's will in his life.She enjoys a happy adult life with her brother and his wife until a stranger named Carwin appears and quickly becomes a part of their inner circle.Carwin eventually becomes Clara's tormentor.She, her brother, and their mutual friend Pleyel all hear mysterious, unexplained voices warning them of danger and imparting fateful news on several occasions.Her brother, deeply religious like his father, is greatly affected by these phenomena--how much so we learn later in the novel.Carwin fatefully destroys Clara's life when his evil designs paint her as a harlot in Pleyel's eye.Her unrequited love for Pleyel is now met with his condemnation of her--the agony of the charges against her is particularly poignant in the early American era in which the story takes place.On the fateful night, she discovers Carwin hiding in her home, and he admits to having had murderous designs on her.Her sorrows are greatly magnified the following day by the murder of her brother's wife and five children by none other than her own beloved brother.She blames Carwin for having influenced her brother to commit murder, but we later learn that dementia itself is almost surely to blame for her brother's wrongs.Before the tale ends, she faces a confrontation with both Carwin and her murderous brother, an experience which she is fortunate to survive. The tale itself is wonderful.The suspense Brown draws out and continually heightens is first-rate.Clara's encounters with voices and human spirits hidden in the darkness of her bedroom are spine-tingling.The language of the novel does make it a work that requires some concentration on the part of the reader and may serve to frustrate some, but I think it greatly magnifies the horrific aspects of the tale.The dialogues of the actors are admittedly overdramatic and drawn out.No one speaks in this book; rather, everyone makes speeches.The protagonist often resorts to long laments of her great woe and asks how she can possibly go on with the story.Despite such dramatics on her part, though, Clara is clearly a brave, independent woman (reflecting Brown's strong and admirable commitment to the rights of women).Overall, the tale delivers a buffet of the passive voice style of writing, which I for one refuse not to love; even the most unimportant sentences are graced with a flowery, beautiful aspect. In terms of the Gothic element to the story, one cannot say that the supernatural aspects are wholly disproved in the end--to some extent they are, but not to such an extent that Wieland's murderous actions can be explained by them.Clearly, Wieland did hear voices other than those made by Carwin the biloquist.The air of mystery that remains about Wieland's dementia and the causes of it makes the ending more successful than I feared it would be once I learned of the power of ventriloquism exercised by Carwin to dictate many of the related events.My only complaint is with the final chapter, which is basically an epilogue in the protagonist's journal.Inexplicably, it introduces a new character to explain something about a minor character whom I frankly could not even remember.
The first solid American novel
A curious read |
8. Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Brockden Brown | |
Paperback: 412
Pages
(2002-06-11)
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An Interesting Beginning
Intellectual Gothic
the best edition of Wieland |
9. Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic by Peter Kafer | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2004-03)
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Editorial Review Book Description In 1798, a decade after the Founding Fathers created a nation based on the principles of liberty and equality, Charles Brockden Brown, then an unknown Philadelphia writer, invented the American Gothic novel. His first book, Wieland, is the story of a religious fanatic haunted by demonic voices instructing him to murder his wife and children; in subsequent works, a young country bumpkin confronts the depravities of city existence, an impecunious daughter becomes the erotic obsession of an insane egomaniacal rationalist, and a sleepwalker awakes to--and participates in--the extremes of frontier savagery. How could a glorious age of American history also give rise to the darkest of literary traditions, one that would inspire Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and many other best-selling American writers? |
10. Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2004-05)
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11. The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic by Bill Christophersen | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1994-01)
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12. Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds | |
Hardcover: 190
Pages
(1997-01)
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13. Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic by Michael Cody | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2004-04)
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Editorial Review Book Description This book considers how Brown's Literary Magazine contributed to the development of cultural cohesiveness and political stability in the young United States. It explores the intellectual and cultural setting in which this Philadelphia miscellany was published, the political writing that appears in what Brown claimed was a politically neutral venue, and the social and cultural criticism that attempts to guide the development of the American character. During his twenty years as an author, he participated in disseminating texts of cultural and literary worth. Brown's essays and reviews assisted in the establishment of reading habits in America and influenced the public reception of the early American press. |
14. The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture by Steven Watts | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(1994-03-01)
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Editorial Review Book Description Among the leading writers of the early republic, Charles Brockden Brown often appears as a romantic prototype--the brilliant, alienated author rejected by a utilitarian, materialistic American society. In The Romance of Real Life Steven Watts reinterprets Brown's life and work as a complex case study in the emerging culture of capitalism at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Offering a revisionist view of Brown himself, Watts examines the major novels of the 1790s as well as previously neglected sources--from early essays and private letters to late-career forays into journalism, political pamphleteering, serial fiction, and cultural criticism. |
15. Charles Brockden Brown (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Donald A. Ringe | |
Hardcover: 141
Pages
(1991-01)
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16. Charles Brockden Brown, a Reference Guide (A Reference Publication in Literature) by Patricia L. Parker | |
Hardcover: 132
Pages
(1980-06)
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17. Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale by Alan Axelrod | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1983-05)
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18. The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown by Norman S. Grabo | |
Hardcover: 210
Pages
(1981-12)
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19. Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Scott Slawinski | |
Hardcover: 128
Pages
(2005-01-07)
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20. Wieland; or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist (The World's Classics) by Charles Brockden Brown | |
Paperback: 329
Pages
(1994-06-23)
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the early beginnings of american literature That said, let me add quickly that this novel is a must-read, without a doubt. This truly Gothic tale will keep you in suspence from start to finish--and guess what, Brown even claims a historical precedent for the narrator's brother slaughtering his wife and children. This is Real TV! It is not a great novel (although superior to, for instance, "Edgar Huntly" and "Stephen Calvert") but it is a fascinating one. Brown was quick to jump on the bandwagon of female fiction that proved to be the bestseller in 19th century America, and this semi-epistolary tale by a female narrator is fascinating if only for the problems its form poses. For instance, its epistolary character, meant to create a sense of urgency and directness, never convinces due to its pretentious literate (read, latinate) diction and syntax. Moreover, Brown's choice of a female narrator--a man writing like a woman writing like a man--, while marketable in 1798, shows that he always bites off much more than he can chew. A much better (and earlier, 1797!) example of a female epistolary novel is Hannah W. Foster's "The Coquette," available in a wonderful edition also by the Oxford UP. Unlike what some would have you believe, Brown is not the earliest American novelist. It is interesting to note that some of his fans claim Brown instead of Cooper, completely forgetting the books put out by female authors and read mainly by women. I might add that Brown had a male predecessor also, a namesake, William Hill Brown ("The Power of Sympathy," 1789): one shouldn't try to simplify the history of early American literature. However, to come to grips with American literature, and especially its love for the Gothic (mystery, murder, incest), "Wieland" is a great start, and this is a very good edition. ... Read more |
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