Gothic roots: Brockden Brown's Wieland, American identity, and American literature
Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798), one of the first novels by an American author set in the newly formed United States, and dealing with American topics, is generally classed as a “Gothic” novel and read as exploring issues of national identity. The Gothic form, popular in English litera...
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Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798), one of the first novels by an American author set in the newly formed United States, and dealing with American topics, is generally classed as a “Gothic” novel and read as exploring issues of national identity. The Gothic form, popular in English literature, where it gave sensationalistic treatment to matters of gender, class, national identity and religious affiliation, proved adaptable to conditions overseas. Wieland, however, is less sanguine about the success of the nation-building and independence-achieving enterprise than other, later, novels of American national identity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5c72a80d381e4c54a54aafad64a79cd42025-08-20T03:43:55ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262012-11-016210.5007/2175-8026.2012n62p19719086Gothic roots: Brockden Brown's Wieland, American identity, and American literatureRenata R. Mautner Wasserman0Wayne State University Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland (1798), one of the first novels by an American author set in the newly formed United States, and dealing with American topics, is generally classed as a “Gothic” novel and read as exploring issues of national identity. The Gothic form, popular in English literature, where it gave sensationalistic treatment to matters of gender, class, national identity and religious affiliation, proved adaptable to conditions overseas. Wieland, however, is less sanguine about the success of the nation-building and independence-achieving enterprise than other, later, novels of American national identity.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/26995 |
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