Wieland, Or, the Transformation: An American Tale - Couverture souple

Brown, Charles Brockden

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486475999 ISBN 13 : 9780486475998

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2010

Synopsis

A major influence on Poe and Hawthorne, this spellbinding tale of seduction, insanity, and murder represents one of America's earliest novels. Based on the true story of a religious fanatic who slaughtered his family, this proto-Gothic novel unfolds in rural Pennsylvania of the 1760s and offers compelling reflections of the era's social and political anxieties.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810), an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.

He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0486475999
• ISBN 13: 9780486475998
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240