Brown, Charles Brockden

Charles Brockden Brown

by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

fromGothic authors: critical revisions

0 Type: Book

Argues that Brown was an originator in Gothic sub-genres in the transition from Enlightenment rationality to literary Romanticism.

Charles Brockden Brown

by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

fromGothic authors: critical revisions

0 Type: Book

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; tha…

American studies and literary scholarship have long operated on the assumption that the United States has no official religion. That assumption has led naturally to a circumscribed and incomplete, if not inaccurate, set of traditionally accepted literary-critical conclusions whe…