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Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new United States, Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland (1798) is the first gothic ...Show synopsisTesting the limits of religious and literary authority in the new United States, Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland (1798) is the first gothic novel in America and a cornerstone of the American literary canon. Also reprinted is Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Brown's sequel to Wieland. Explanatory annotations are provided throughout this Norton Critical Edition. Inspirations for Brown's work are presented in "Sources and Contexts". "Criticism" includes contemporary responses to the novel along with fourteen modern critical approaches.Hide synopsis
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Penguin Books) – Trade paperback (1991)
by
Charles Brockden Brown, Jay Fliegelman (Editor)
Trade paperback, Penguin Books 1991
English
416 pages
ISBN: 0140390790 ISBN-13: 9780140390797
Set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American ...Show moreSet in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American republic. The unfinished sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, traces Carwin's career as a follower of the utopist Ludloe.Hide
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