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Charles Brockden Brown

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born

January 17, 1771 in The United States

died

February 22, 1810

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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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 ambitious and accomplished US 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 by no means 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 decad...more

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Books by Charles Brockden Brown

Average rating: 3.36 · 1,292 ratings · 159 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown, Jay Fliegelman 3.45 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1798 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown, Norman S. Grabo 3.23 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1827 — 53 editions	My rating:
	Wieland 3.31 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1798 — 46 editions	My rating:
	Arthur Mervyn 3.52 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1962 — 44 editions	My rating:
	Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Chapman (Editor) 3.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1799 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels: Wieland / Arthur Mervyn / EdgarHuntly by Charles Brockden Brown, Sydney J. Krause (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Jane Talbot 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1827 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Somnambulism And Other Stories 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	5 Books By Charles Brockden Brown 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Charles Brockden Brown

“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Somnambulism And Other Stories

tags: irrationality , obsession , perversity

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“How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

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