Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown

by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

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This study of the works of late eighteenth-century American Gothic author Charles Brockden Brown argues that Brown was a seminal figure in the development of four forms of Gothic fiction: the Frontier Gothic, the Urban Gothic, the Psychological Gothic, and the Female Gothic; that Brown represents a crucial transitional figure between the Age of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century Romanticism; and that Brown used his fiction in progressive ways to address issues of women's rights, slavery, …

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  • Full title :Charles Brockden Brown / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

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This study of the works of late eighteenth-century American Gothic author Charles Brockden Brown argues that Brown was a seminal figure in the development of four forms of Gothic fiction: the Frontier Gothic, the Urban Gothic, the Psychological Gothic, and the Female Gothic; that Brown represents a crucial transitional figure between the Age of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century Romanticism; and that Brown used his fiction in progressive ways to address issues of women's rights, slavery, and anti-Semitism.

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  • Publication Date:2011.

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  • Description:1 online resource (206 pages)

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  • ISBN:9780708324226, 0708324223, 1299200923, 9781299200920
  • oclc:ocn768119837
  • LC Classification:PS1137
  • Dewey Decimal:813.2

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