From p. 210, line 25, “Man of errors!” to p. 212, line 20, “they must continue to hover in my sight.

”I am reliably unreliable.”― Steven Magee

The eighteenth century was a period where reason and rationalism were privileged over fanaticism and...

Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798) is perhaps his most famous work, and has justified claim to be categorised as a text of ‘transatlantic identity’. For the purpose of this essay, the definition of ‘transatlantic identity’ will be as follows:...

Although Leslie A. Fiedler calls Charles Brockden Brown the "inventor of the American writer," and sees the revolt of the European middle classes translating in America to "feminism and anti-intellectualism," Brockden Brown seems to have a problem...

The Roles of Family in Wieland and The Last of the Mohicans

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a...

As the narrator of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Clara is unreliable. The fantastic events she recounts are unbelievable and unexplained, leading readers to question the validity of her tale. For example, she introduces the theory of...

The advent of democracy in America brought with it a slue of worries and concerns held by the newly independent colonists. Some felt like the lost, orphaned children of Great Britain while others pondered the uncertain future of the new nation....

Lonely mansions, ghostly apparitions, and magic are some of the elements that create the atmosphere in Gothic stories. In his novel Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown uses most of these to create an aura of mystery and suspense. Brown once said that...

Throughout Wieland the text circles around the possibility of social, and therefore national, progress during the period following the American Revolution. The eventual answers the text might provide are ambiguous and certainly outside the scope...

In the gothic novel Wieland [1], Charles Brockden Brown confronts the anxieties of the early United States Republic regarding the sense of the threat posed by “wandering anarchists, dangerous foreigners and murderous savages.” As a work of the...

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, a narrator is: “one who tells a story. In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story’s point of view.” If the narrator is the person that determines the story’s point of view, then what happens...

The eponymous characters of William Godwin’s Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker serve as protagonists that do not always seem to be at the center of...

In Charles Brockden Brown’s novel, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), many characters have problems with interpreting their own ideas of reality and of what is actually real within the context of the novel. Edgar Huntly’s...

Miasma is an outdated medical notion that contagion could move through the air, permeating the atmosphere to find its next victims. Often portrayed as a sinister cloud, people believed that the air could be filled with disease, creeping around...