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Murderous Masculinities the Early Republic of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland
Gender Studies, 2021 This essay examines Charles Brockden Brown’s first novel, Wieland (1798), particularly as it engages and critiques gender and nationalism in the fictive treatment of familicidal murders that took place in the eighteenth century.
Keller Michael
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Marc Amfreville. Charles Brockden Brown. La part du doute. [PDF]
Transatlantica, 2006 La collection « Voix américaines » remonte cette fois-ci jusqu’au tout début de la littérature des Etats-Unis. Né en 1771, juste avant la guerre d’Indépendance, Charles Brockden Brown, sujet de ce volume, publia six romans (Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn,
Mark Niemeyer
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Sillages Critiques, 2012 This article aims at showing that imitation, far from being only a theme that pervades American literature from the start (Charles Brockden Brown, Ambrose Bierce) to its most recent developments (DeLillo), constitutes a defining structure.
Marc Amfreville
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La edición perdida de Wieland en España (ca. 1818)
Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2019 The main objective of this article is to recover an early 19th century Spanish edition of one of the first important novels of the literature produced in the United States: Wieland, by Charles Brockden Brown.
José Manuel Correoso Rodenas
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore
Transatlantica, 2019 This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction.
Marc Amfreville
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Počátky paranormálního modu v americké fantastické literatuře: Charles Brockden Brown
Bohemica Litteraria, 2019 The paper argues that the beginning of the paranormal mode in English and American literature should be traced back to Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic novel Wieland (1798). The concept of the paranormal mode is based on Nancy H.
Michal Peprník
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Walking With the Ghost: Sodomy, Sanity and the Secular in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
European Journal of American Studies, 2017 In the last twenty years, there has been a boom in scholarship on Charles Brockden Brown, most of which connects his work to social developments occurring in the early American republic.
Kyle Joseph Campbell
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The American Frontier and the Initiation Rite to a National Literature
RSA Journal, 1993 Since its beginning, much American writing has been based on a rhetoric of migration. For the novelists of the New Republic, internal migration of the westward movement had already become a national archetype from which many American myths were to ...
Michele Bottalico
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"Light might possibly be requisite": Edgar Huntly, Regional History, and Historicist Criticism [PDF]
, 2010 Charles Brockden Brown’s celebrated novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), set in the Forks of the Delaware region of Pennsylvania, has been related to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the basis of a mistaken ...
Andrew Newman
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European Journal of American Studies, 2010 This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast ...
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
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