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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Charles Brockden Brown"”.
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Charles Brockden Brown: a Redefinition of the Gothic Novel
… form of literature. The American author Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) redefined the Gothic novel by proving that terror and horror can originate anywhere, even in the streets of a city such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Brown is considered to be the first American author of …
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Ethics of the Grotesque
… work focuses on tracing the animating ethos of Charles Brockden Brown’s intriguing but confusing novels through close attention to the texts and to the richly complex historical environment from which they emerge and to which they respond. In several non-novelistic writings, including prefaces, …
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The novels of Charles Brockden Brown: irony and illusion
<p>This study grows out of the assumption that Brown's fiction would reward examination on its merits alone; therefore, the techniques out of which Brown's complex view of man evolves receive attention over and above thematic concerns. The organization is not chronological so there is no effort at …
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Republican Fictions in Search of an Audience: The Works of Charles Brockden Brown
Brown's life spanned the decades during which neoclassical notions of authorship gave way to more market-driven conceptions. Accordingly, reading practices were transformed as novels became ever more popular. Directed to an ever-widening and more socially diverse audience of women and men, novels …
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A study of the interaction of good and evil in the four major novels of Charles Brockden Brown
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Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity
<p>Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic is distinctly American in its dealings with Revolutionary-era culture and distinctly Gothic in its subversion of the foundational aspects of this culture. Brown draws upon his own revolutionary experience, to first connect, then criticize the two main …
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From Fear to Reverie: Incidents in Isolation in the American Wilderness
… Nineteenth Century authors: Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Alan Poe, Harriet Spofford,<em> </em>Nathaniel Hawthorne, and<em> </em>Herman Melville root America’s identity in the wilderness. They emphasize its power on the human psyche as positive, restorative, inward-looking, …
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The Sublime and the Dutiful: Ethics and Excess From Edwards to Melville
… such early American authors as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. Each, in his own way, shows how the sublime can be dutiful---how it can constitute not one self's recovered and isolated sense of itself, but rather its constitutive …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… literature and culture. Writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, and Lydia Sigourney countered traditional moral conceptions of intemperance by materially linking mental and physical states to environmental conditions, social …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… from the earliest decades of the United States. Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Black Hawk's Autobiography all imagine survival stories within which protagonists must strive against a willful, …
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
This project takes up health spectacle, which I identify as a prevailing concept for late eighteenth and nineteenth century American health history, first beginning in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical …