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100 1 $aChristophersen, Bill.
245 14 $aThe apparition in the glass :$bCharles Brockden Brown's American gothic /$cBill Christophersen.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c©1993.
300 $axi, 208 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-201) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. The Condition of Our Country -- Ch. 2. Toward an American Romance -- Ch. 3. Wieland: Domestic Depravity and the Extraordinary Silence -- Ch. 4. Ormond: Fever in the Land -- Ch. 5. Arthur Mervyn: Sickness, Success, and the Recompense of Virtue -- Ch. 6. Edgar Huntly: Somnambulism vs. Self-Knowledge -- Ch. 7. Charles Brockden Brown and the American Romance.
520 $aThe first American to be recognized internationally as a serious novelist, Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) sought in his fiction to project a native voice that would express the character of the young republic. In the four Gothic romances that are his best-remembered works - Wieland (1798), Ormond (1799), Arthur Mervyn (1799-1800), and Edgar Huntly (1799) - Brown insisted he was writing "American tales" portraying "the condition of our country. Bill Christophersen, in.
520 $aThe Apparition in the Glass, follows Brown's lead, exploring the ways in which his novels reflected America during the 1790s - an America that was proud of its newly achieved status as an independent republic but was also plagued by spiritual doubts, social dilemmas, and volatile postrevolutionary tensions. These doubts, dilemmas, and tensions, Christophersen suggests, are the novels' latent subjects. At their best, he argues, Brown's fictions "hold up the glass to this.
520 $aMany-layered and parlous cultural self." In close readings of Brown's Gothic novels, Christophersen traces the specific links between the texts and a society in which flux and revolutions of fortune are the rule rather than the exception. He examines Wieland in light of the factionalization that was peaking during 1798, when Brown was writing the book, and the religious anxieties of the Second Great Awakening that were just beginning to manifest themselves beneath the.
520 $aRevival tent. He treats Ormond, with its yellow-fever plague and the French seducer-villain, as an allegory of America's revolutionary and postrevolutionary history. Arthur Mervyn he suggests, projects doubts about a utilitarian approach to moral concerns and expresses fear of an enslaved underclass. He sees Edgar Huntly as an exploration of the debate about human nature in the late eighteenth century - a philosophical debate of importance to a nation Brown repeatedly.
520 $aDepicted as asleep to her darker self. Taking its title from Arthur Mervyn in which an apparition leaps, as it were, from a mirror to knock its protagonist cold, this study suggests that Brown's overriding concern was to alert his culture to its grotesque alter ego and to investigate that alter ego.
600 10 $aBrown, Charles Brockden,$d1771-1810$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 16 $aBrown, Charles Brockden,$d1771-1810$xCritique et interprétation.
600 17 $aBrown, Charles Brockden,$d1771-1810$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00046877
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600 14 $aBrown, Charles Brockden,$d1771-1810$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 6 $aRoman noir (Genre littéraire)$zÉtats-Unis$xHistoire et critique.
650 6 $aRécits d'horreur américains$xHistoire et critique.
650 7 $aGothic revival (Literature)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00945084
650 7 $aHorror tales, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00960399
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650 7 $aAmerikabild$2gnd
650 7 $aGothic novel$2gnd
653 0 $aEnglish fiction
653 0 $aUnited States
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006163076&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a5m0-aa
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