Charles Brockden Brown Contributor(s): Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0708324193 ISBN-13: 9780708324196 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $11.88 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance |
Dewey: 809.387 |
Series: Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: The American author Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is a controversial figure within the field of Gothic studies. He was admired by nineteenth-century literary figures such as Poe, Hawthorne, George Lippard (who dedicated his gothic novel Quaker City to him), and John Greenleaf Whittier; identified as an important figure in the development of the American literary tradition by critical heavyweights including R. W. B. Lewis, Richard Chase, Harry Levin, and Leslie Fiedler; and clearly influential to the entire American Gothic tradition. However, it remains true that Brown is seldom read outside of courses on American Romanticism and is more often celebrated for what he initiated than for what he achieved. Here, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock fills this void in the academic and cultural record with an introduction to Brown and his writing that makes the case for Brown as a major author in his own right. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew: - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of American literature and culture at Central Michigan University and associate editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. |