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Charles Brockden Brown

Born

in The United States

January 17, 1771

Died

February 22, 1810

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Gothic

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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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Average rating: 3.43 · 9,257 ratings · 949 reviews · 158 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown, Jay Fliegelman (Editor) 3.37 avg rating — 2,359 ratings — published 1798 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wieland, or, The Transformation (Carwin, #1) 3.18 avg rating — 2,016 ratings — published 1798 — 496 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown, Norman S. Grabo (Introduction) 3.07 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1799 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Mervyn 3.17 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1798 — 204 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Chapman (Editor) 3.24 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1799 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories by Charles Brockden Brown, Caleb Crain (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.29 avg rating — 171 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels by Charles Brockden Brown, Sydney J. Krause (Editor) 3.56 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Carwin, #0.5) 2.98 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1805 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wieland; or The Transformation: with Related Texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard (Editor), Stephen Shapiro (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Talbot 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1801 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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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“‎"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.”
― Charles Brockden Brown

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“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

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