Mark Kamrath, "The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic"
English | ISBN: 1606350323 | 2010 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1606350323 | 2010 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown
The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America’s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. However, little has been said about the latter years of Brown’s career. While his early novels are celebrated for their innovative and experimental style, Brown’s later historical narratives are often dismissed as uninteresting, and Brown himself has been accused of having become “a stodgy conservative.”
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