Charles Brockden Brown |
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| Author:
| Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-20092-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $144.00 |
Book Description:
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This study of the works of late eighteenth-century American Gothic author Charles Brockden Brown argues that Brown was a seminal figure in the development of four forms of Gothic fiction: the Frontier Gothic, the Urban Gothic, the Psychological Gothic, and the Female Gothic; that Brown represents a crucial transitional figure between the Age of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century Romanticism; and that Brown used his fiction in progressive ways to address issues of women s rights,...
More DescriptionThis study of the works of late eighteenth-century American Gothic author Charles Brockden Brown argues that Brown was a seminal figure in the development of four forms of Gothic fiction: the Frontier Gothic, the Urban Gothic, the Psychological Gothic, and the Female Gothic; that Brown represents a crucial transitional figure between the Age of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century Romanticism; and that Brown used his fiction in progressive ways to address issues of women s rights, slavery, and anti-Semitism."