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Charles Brockden Brown Charles Brockden Brown Charles Brockden Brown (University of Wales Press – Gothic Authors: Critical Revisio)
Author(s): Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 5 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708324207
- ISBN-13: 9780708324202
Book Description
Charles Brockden Brown figures importantly in the development of American literature and the gothic genre in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this book, Jeffrey Weinstock argues that, in the transition from Enlightenment rationality to literary Romanticism, Brown was an originator in gothic sub-genres from frontier to urban gothic, from psychological to female gothic which unfolded in seven novels that provide an insight into the socio-political milieu of the early republic.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Weinstock’s study offers a quick, readable introduction to Brown’s major novels, his intellectual biography, and his influences, situated in reference to the most critically significant studies of Brown’s work, past and present… Recommended.”–A. T. Hale, University of Puget Sound “Choice ” Throughout the study, Weinstock’s prose is lucid and entertaining, and his research is wide-ranging and generally solid…Weinstock’s breadth as a scholar of early American literature, of Gothic and pop culture (film particularly), and his writing style, which is lucid and not dependent on jargon, make this book widely accessible. – Michael Cody, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
About the Author
Associate Professor of English, Central Michigan University