"New forms of sublimity": Edgar Huntly and the European origins of American exceptionalism
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Charles Brockden Brown's novels were regarded first as example of American exceptionalism and then in recent years as anti-exceptionalist. The author attributes Browns early literary exceptionalism to the fact that Brown worked in an established European literary form, the gothic romance, because eighteenth-century American literary nationalism was shaped by the European culture of the aesthetic.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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The early American novel: Charles Brockden Brown's fictitious historiography
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Charles Brockden Brown's essay, "Walstein's School of History" from the German of Krants of Gotha about the dangers of historiography is analyzed. The author examines Brown's claims that the novel is the superior vehicle for truth and that history was one important way to educate members of the new nation in the manners, duties and dangers of a modern republic citizenship.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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Is there an early American novel?
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The author summarizes the critical analysis of the early American novels of the other contributors of this issue. The collection of essays conveys the possibility that these works may not fit any preconceived notion of what an American novel must tell.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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