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The Novels of Charles. Brockden Brown - Consisting of Wieland, Or, the Transformation; Arthur Mervyn, Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793; Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker; Jane Talbot, Ormond, Or, the Secret Witness; Clara Howard, Or, the Enthusia (Paperback)
Charles Brockden Brown
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The Novels of Charles. Brockden Brown - Consisting of Wieland, Or, the Transformation; Arthur Mervyn, Or, Memoirs of the Year 179; Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker; Jane Talbot, Ormond, Or, the Secret Witness; Clara Howard, Or, the Enthusias (Paperback)
Charles Brockden Brown
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Charles Brockden Brown
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The Novels of Charles. Brockden Brown - Consisting of Wieland, Or, the Transformation; Arthur Mervyn, Or, Memoirs of the Year 793; Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker; Jane Talbot, Ormond, Or, the Secret Witness; Clara Howard, Or, the Enthusias (Paperback)
Charles Brockden Brown
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Jane Talbot
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Wieland, the story of religious delusions and horrific violence on
the eve of the American Revolution, is the first gothic novel in
America and a cornerstone of the Early American literary canon. A
family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited first by
a set of mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air,
followed soon after by an itinerant rustic named Carwin. Violence
erupts when the family's young patriarch believes he hears God's
voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. Testing the
limits of religious and literary authority in the new United
States, Brown's novel has for more than two centuries kept readers
debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary
politics as the story's moral chaos unfolds. The editor provides
explanatory annotation throughout the volume. This Norton Critical
Edition also reprints Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Brown's
fragmentary sequel to Wieland. "Sources and Contexts" presents
inspirations for Brown's work, including an account of the
real-life Yates family murders, an excerpt from Christoph Martin
Wieland's The Trial of Abraham, as well as religious and medical
accounts of delusion, spontaneous combustion, and ventriloquism.
Brown's outline for Wieland and his letter to Thomas Jefferson are
also reprinted. "Criticism" includes contemporary responses to the
novel from both the United States and the United Kingdom along with
fourteen essential modern critical approaches. Recent contributors
include Shirley Samuels, Christopher Looby, Nancy Ruttenberg, Laura
Korobkin, David Kazanjian, Bryan Waterman, and Stephen Shapiro,
among others. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also
included.
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