Carwin, Clara tells us, is still circulating, and the threats that he represents remain powerful and productive. Because Carwin continually evades normative attempts at classification and comprehension, he is less a threat to emerging Republican political praxis than a living testament to the democratizing power of unrestrained imagination, a power that continually and thrillingly reveals the precariousness of early American distinctions between deviance and normative belonging.5 II. [...] Carwin's escape is a testament to the powers of unrestrained imagination, to the power of words to undermine the often stultifying normative codes that comprise the social contract, and to the power of common men and women to throw into turmoil the social hierarchies that limit the ability for democ...
I. BILOQUIUM (A FOOTNOTE). NEAR THE END OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN'S I 798 novel, Wiefond, the princip...
While teachers and scholars will undoubtedly rely more and more on electronic sources and archival databases for teaching and research, a range of factors will continue to ensure that the printed book holds an exalted status in our work lives, at least in the foreseeable future: uneven access to digital resources; the simple convenience of a material text and its features - including introductions, bibliographies, and additional materials; our own valuation of the high scholarly standards and peer-review process maintained by academic presses; and the privileging of conventional forms of publication in promotion and tenure decisions. [...] in recent years early American studies has flourished, becoming one of the most dynamic areas of US literary studies.
..., for example, to account for works by Charles Brockden Brown, the only arguably canonical noveli...
Make it new," Ezra Pound demanded, in an influential utterance that argued the case for detailed study of classic texts, respectful assimilation of their achievements and the application of learning thus absorbed to a poetic apprehension of the here and now and yet to be. It was a clarion call taken up by such modern masters as Hemingway, Stein, Picasso and Shostakovich, and many, many others. The editors of this rich exercise in cultural history have likewise taken up Pound's challenge, producing an eloquent patchwork volume that gathers up more than 200 essays, chronologically arranged by subject, into a beguiling symphony that expresses the bewildering, often intimidating varieties of what we presume to call the American experience.
... albeit troubled personal morality; Charles Brockden Brown's heroic, flawed attempt to write t...
...-35, the authentic fictional letters of Charles Brockden Brown, Cherokee Catharine Brown's epistol...
... Steven Watts's reading of the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, The Romance of Real Life: Charles ...
In his own day, Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an inter- national celebrity author and a molder and shaper of popular taste. From his early humorous sketches under the noms de plume of Jonathan Oldstyle, Diedrich Knickerbocker, and Geoffrey Crayon, to later serious biographies of George Washington (in five volumes), Columbus, and Muhammad under his own byline, his works were known and loved in the United States and Europe, particularly in England. They were also bought in quantity. As Brian Jay Jones perceptively notes in Washington Irving: An American Original (Arcade Publishing, 2008), Irving's pen not only made his reputation and spread American folklore around the world; it also made him rich. He soon became aware of what his readers wanted, and Jones shows that he drove famously...
... Spanish; was admired by Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; ...
Whereas in previous work I've focused on seduction, in this essay I focus on women's property rights; I intend to explore the "intricate relations" specific to married unions and prop- erty in early American fiction because coverture - the common law doctrine that held that a woman's legal identity merged with her husband's and that her property became his upon marriage - becomes emblematic for novelists of the inequities embedded in the legal system of the United States in the postRevolutionary era. Not content with merely exposing how coverture undermines affectionate marriage, Wood models alternatives to women's economic dependence by demonstrating the use of marriage settlements, which in Dorval reduce economic incentives for marriage, enhance the economic stability of families, an...
... as an important passage from the novelist Charles Brockden Brown suggests. In the sketch "Walstein's...
Kirby discusses how Little Richard, the mastersinger from Macon GA, became the most important force in 20th-century pop music. Known as the architect of rock 'n' roll, Little Richard's genius lies in his invention of an "improper" style that no other musician could counterfeit. Aside from being an architect or rock 'n' roll, he was also a foxy warrior who fought against what cultural theorist Joseph Roach calls "the staggering erasures required by the invention of whiteness." Every song he sang and every show he performed was played out against the larger backdrop of American racism.
... who are immortalized in the work of Charles Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, and Melville and who ta...
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