- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Early Years, 1771–1795
- Later Years, 1795–1810
- <i>Wieland</i>; or, The Transformation of American Literary History
- <i>Ormond; or, The Secret Witness</i>
- <i>Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793</i>
- On Felons and Fallacies: <i>Edgar Huntly</i>
- <i>Stephen Calvert</i>’s Unfinished Business
- <i>Clara Howard</i>: <i>in a Series of Letters</i>
- <i>Jane Talbot, a Novel</i>
- History, Romance, and the Novel
- <i>Historical Sketches</i>
- Political Pamphlets
- “Annals of Europe and America” and Brown’s Contribution to Early American Periodicals
- Letters
- Poetry
- Short Fiction
- Brown and the Woldwinites
- Brown and Women’s Rights
- Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown
- Brown’s Philadelphia Quaker Milieu
- Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere
- Brown, Empire, and Colonialism
- Brown and Physiology
- Brown and the Yellow Fever
- Brown and Sex
- Brown’s American Gothic
- Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism
- Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World
- Brown and Classicism
- Brown’s Studies in Literary Geography
- Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture
- Brown’s Literary Afterlife
- Brown’s Early Biographers and Reception, 1815–1940s
- Brown’s Later Biographers and Reception, 1949–2000s
- Brown Studies Now and in Transition
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Charles Brockden Brown, who edited three periodicals between 1799 and 1809, used his experience as a novelist to engage readers on important cultural issues. His periodicals became increasingly political. Brown’s “Annals of Europe and America” document historical events, his capacity as a novelist to write “history,” and his status as an ironic historian. In assessing Napoleonic rule and British expansion, he develops a self-conscious method that also informs his inquiry into American events. He sympathetically renders oppressed others in India, comments ironically on motives for exploiting the American west, and interrogates political intrigue in the 1808 Republican nomination process. With developing awareness of the constructed, contingent nature of history, Brown came to understand political self-interest, power and imperialism, and American exceptionalism relative to that of Europe. As in his novels, he imaginatively and provocatively employed genre conventions of the day to represent the past and critically reflect on the present.
Keywords: Charles Brockden Brown, “Annals of Europe and America,” historiography, historical objectivity, political self-interest, imperialism, colonialism, American exceptionalism, irony, periodicals
Mark L. Kamrath is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He isgeneral editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition and codirector of the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research. He teaches American literature to 1865, the American novel to the Civil War, Native American literature, and courses in bibliography and research as well as digital humanities. He coedited Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, Vol. 1 of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (2013), and has developed with Philip Barnard and others an XMLbased archive of all of Brown’s writings that incorporates TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) standards. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium. He is currently coediting a volume of Brown’s political pamphlets and doing research on the body, nature, and natural rights.
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- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Early Years, 1771–1795
- Later Years, 1795–1810
- <i>Wieland</i>; or, The Transformation of American Literary History
- <i>Ormond; or, The Secret Witness</i>
- <i>Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793</i>
- On Felons and Fallacies: <i>Edgar Huntly</i>
- <i>Stephen Calvert</i>’s Unfinished Business
- <i>Clara Howard</i>: <i>in a Series of Letters</i>
- <i>Jane Talbot, a Novel</i>
- History, Romance, and the Novel
- <i>Historical Sketches</i>
- Political Pamphlets
- “Annals of Europe and America” and Brown’s Contribution to Early American Periodicals
- Letters
- Poetry
- Short Fiction
- Brown and the Woldwinites
- Brown and Women’s Rights
- Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown
- Brown’s Philadelphia Quaker Milieu
- Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere
- Brown, Empire, and Colonialism
- Brown and Physiology
- Brown and the Yellow Fever
- Brown and Sex
- Brown’s American Gothic
- Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism
- Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World
- Brown and Classicism
- Brown’s Studies in Literary Geography
- Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture
- Brown’s Literary Afterlife
- Brown’s Early Biographers and Reception, 1815–1940s
- Brown’s Later Biographers and Reception, 1949–2000s
- Brown Studies Now and in Transition
- Index