Wieland: or, the Transformation

Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 - February 22 , 1810), an Americannovelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regardedby scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before JamesFenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitionerof the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, as some earlycriticism claimed, the...
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Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 - February 22 , 1810), an Americannovelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regardedby scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before JamesFenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitionerof the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, as some earlycriticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer inmultiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of everysort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literatureand culture of the 1790s and 1800s, and a significant public intellectual in thewider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.