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Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work.
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown was best known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. This Handbook extends its focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career.
The Handbook includes original essays on all of Brown's fiction and nonfiction writings, and offers new interpretations of the contexts of his work: from the literary, social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The thirty-five contributors in this volume speak in new ways about Brown's depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. Brown's perspectives on American and global history, emerging modernity, selfhood and otherness, and other topics, are explained in comprehensible and up-to-date terms. In addition to opening up new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides the intellectual foundations needed to understand Brown's enduring impact and literary legacy.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmet, and Stephen Shapiro
I. Biography
1. Early Years, 1771-1795
Lisa West
2. Later Years, 1795-1810
Bryan Waterman
II. Romances
3. Wieland; or, the Transformation of American Literary History
Duncan Faherty
4. Ormond; or, The Secret Witness
Nicholas E. Miller
5. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Michael J. Drexler
6. Felons and Fallacies: An Antipodean Edgar Huntly
Hilary Emmett
7. Stephen Calvert's Unfinished Business
Christopher Looby
8. Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters
Philip Barnard
9. Jane Talbot, A Novel
Stephen Shapiro
III. The History-Fiction Nexus
10. History, Romance, and the Novel
Gretchen J. Woertendyke
11. Historical Sketches
Philip Barnard
12. Political Pamphlets
Stephen Shapiro
13. "Annals of Europe and America" and Brown's Contribution to
Early American Periodicals
Mark L. Kamrath
IV. Writings in Other Genres
14. Letters
Elizabeth Hewitt
15. Poetry
Michael C. Cohen
16. Short Fiction
Scott Slawinski
V) Politics and the World-System
17. Brown and the Woldwinites
Abigail Smith Stocker
18. Brown and Women's Rights
Fritz Fleischmann
19. Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown
Leonard von Morzé
20. Brown's Philadelphia Quaker Milieu
Robert Battistini
21. Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere
Anthony Galluzzo
22. Brown, Empire, and Colonialism
Andy Doolen
VI) The Body and Medical Knowledges
23. Brown and Physiology
Stephen Rachman
24. Brown and Yellow Fever
Scott Ellis
25. Brown and Sex
Jordan Alexander Stein
VII) Literary Forms, Aesthetics, and Culture
26. Brown's American Gothic
Robert Miles
27. Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism
Michelle Burnham
28. Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World
Siân Silyn Roberts
29. Brown and Classicism
Oliver Scheiding
30. Brown's Studies in Geography
Martin Brückner
31. Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture
Sarah Boyd
VIII) Reception
32. Brown's Literary Afterlife
Ezra Tawil
33. Brown's Early Biographers and Reception, 1815-1940s
Michael A. Cody
34. Brown's Later Biographers and Reception, 1949-2s
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
35. Brown Studies Now and in Transition
Hannah Lauren Murray
Index
