From Library Journal
In attempting to support the claim that Brown (1771-1810) is "father of the American novel," Christophersen, an editor and teacher, examines Brown's four main novels ( Wieland , Ormond , Arthur Mervyn , and Edgar Huntly ) as Gothic fictions. In them, Brown not only reveled in weird personalities but also revealed the real psychological and social ills and tensions (rooted in innate human depravity) besetting a new country in the last decade of the 18th century. If this convincing, clearly written argument does not remove Brown from the camp of Poe, at least it should set him down beside Hawthorne and Melville as one of the most trenchant critics of early America. For academic libraries.
- Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
