| Top | Primary Works

Fiction: Wieland, Ormond, Edgar Huntly, Alcuin, (1798-99); Arthur Mervyn, 1793, 1800; Clara Howard, 1801; Jane Talbot; 1801; "Somnambulism. A Fragment," 1805.

Journals: The Monthly Magazine and American Review, 1799; The Literary Magazine and the American Register, 1803-1806; American Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, 1806.

Novels. 6 volumes. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat P, 1963. PS1130 F63

The novels and related works of Charles Brockden Brown. Ed. Sidney J. Krause. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1977-1980. PS1130 .F77

The rhapsodist: and other uncollected writings by CharlesBrockden Brown. Ed. Harry R. Warfel. NY: Scholars' facsimiles & reprints, 1943. PS1132 .W3

Memoirs of Stephen Calvert; Charles Brockden Brown. Ed. Hans Borchers. Las Vegas: Lang, 1978. PS1134 .M4

Wieland ; or, The transformation together with Memoirs of Carwin the biloquist: a fragment by Charles Brockden Brown. Ed. Fred Lewis Pattee. NY: Hafner Pub. Co., 1960. PS1134 .W5

Alcuin: a dialogue. Ed. Lee R. Edwards. NY: Grossman Publishers, 1971 .PS1134 .A7

Three Gothic novels; Charles Brockden Brown. NY: Penguin Putnam, 1998. PS1132

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Books

Axelrod, Alan. Charles Brockden Brown, an American tale. Austin: U of Texas P, 1983. PS1137 .A9

Christophersen, Bill. The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1993.

Clark, David L. Charles Brockden Brown, pioneer voice of America. Durham, N.C., Duke U P, 1952. PS1136 .C52

Fliegelman, Jay. ed. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. New York : Penguin, 1991.

Grabo, Norman S. The coincidental art of Charles Brockden Brown. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1981. PS1137 .G7

Levine, Robert S. Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1989.

Parker, Patricia L. Charles Brockden Brown, a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Z8123.585 .P37

Reising, Russell J. Loose ends: closure and crisis in the American social text. Durham, N.C.: Duke U P, 1996. PS169 .S57 R45

Ringe, Donald A. Charles Brockden Brown. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. PS1137 .R56

- - -. American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth Century Fiction. Lexington : UP of Kentucky, 1982.

Warfel, Harry R. Charles Brockden Brown, American Gothic Novelist. Gainsville: U of Florida P, 1949.

Watts, Steven. The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Anderson, Douglas. "Edgar Huntly's Dark Inheritance." Philological Quarterly 70.4 (Fall 1991): 453-73.

Bauer, Ralph. "Between Repression and Transgression: Rousseau's Confessions and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." American Transcendental Quarterly 10.4 (Dec 1996): 311-29.

Bellis, Peter J. "Narrative Compulsion and Control, in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly." South Atlantic Review 52.1 (Jan 1987): 43-57.

Bennett, Maurice J. "A Portrait of the Artist in Eighteenth Century America: Charles Brockden Brown's Memoirs of Stephen Calvert." William and Mary Quarterly 39.3 (Jul 1982): 492-507.

Berthold, Dennis. "Desacralizing the American Gothic: An Iconographic Approach to Edgar Huntly." Studies in American Fiction 14.2 (Autm 1986): 127-38.

Bredahl, A. Carl. "The Two Portraits in Wieland." Early American Literature 16.1 (Sprg 1981): 54-59.

Burgett, Bruce. "Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard." Arizona Quarterly 52.1 (Sprg 1996): 1-25.

Christophersen, Bill. "Picking Up the Knife: A Psycho Historical Reading of Wieland." American Studies 27.1 (Sprg 1986): 115-26.

- - -. "'Father of the American Novel': Brockden Brown in the 80's." Western Humanities Review 39.1 (Sprg 1985): 77-85.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Humanitarianism and Uncertainty in Arthur Mervyn." Essays in Literature 22.2 (Fall 1995): 215-26.

Feeney, Joseph J., S.J. "Modernized by 1800: The Portrait of Urban America, especially Philadelphia, in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown." American Studies 23.2 (Fall 1982): 25-38.

Fussell, Edwin S. "Wieland: A Literary and Historical Reading." Early American Literature 18.1 (Fall 1983): 171-86.

Gardner, Jared. "Alien Nation: Edgar Huntly's Savage Awakening." American Literature 66.3 (Sep 1994): 429-61.

| Top | Hagenbuchle, Roland. "American Literature and the Nineteenth Century Crisis in Epistemology: The Example of Charles Brockden Brown." Early American Literature 23.2 (1988): 121-51.

Hamelman, Steven. "Rhapsodist in the Wilderness: Brown's Romantic Quest in Edgar Huntly." Studies in American Fiction 21.2 (Autm 1993): 171-90.

- - -. "Psychic Fragmentation and Ego Defense in Charles Brockden Brown's 'Somnambulism. A Fragment.'" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for Psychological Study of the Arts. 2001. (E-Text)

Hesford, Walter. "'Do You Know the Author?' The Question of Authorship in Wieland." Early American Literature 17.3 (Wint 1983): 239-48.

Hinds, Elizabeth. "Charles Brockden Brown's Revenge Tragedy: Edgar Huntly and the Uses of Property." Early American Literature 30.1 (1995): 51-70.

Jordan, Cynthia S. "On Rereading Wieland: 'The Folly of Precipitate Conclusions.'" Early American Literature 16.2 (Fall 1981): 154-74.

Larson, David M. "Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly and the Critics." Essays in Literature 15.2 (Fall 1988): 207-19.

Lee, A. Robert. "A Darkness Visible: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown." American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. Ed. Brian Docherty. NY: St. Martin's, 1990. 

Levine, Robert S. "Arthur Mervyn's Revolutions." Studies in American Fiction 12.2 (Autm 1984): 145-60.

Lewis, Paul. "Charles Brockden Brown and the Gendered Canon of Early American Fiction." Early American Literature 31.2 (1996): 167-88.

Lueck, Beth L. "Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly: The Picturesque Traveler as Sleepwalker." Studies in American Fiction 15.1 (Sprg 1987): 25-42.

Newman, Robert D. "Indians and Indian Hating in Edgar Huntly and The Confidence Man." MELUS 15.3 (Fall 1988): 65-74.

O'Shaughnessy, Toni. "'An Imperfect Tale': Interpretive Accountability in Wieland." Studies in American Fiction 18.1 (Sprg 1990): 41-54.

Patrick, Marietta. "Mythic Images in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond." University of Mississippi Studies in English 11-12 (1993-95): 294-302.

| Top | Person, Leland S., Jr. "'My Good Mamma': Women in Edgar Huntly and Arthur Mervyn." Studies in American Fiction 9.1 (Sprg 1981): 33-46.

Rombes, Nicholas, Jr. "'All Was Lonely, Darksome, and Waste': Wieland and the Construction of the New Republic." Studies in American Fiction 22.1 (Sprg 1994): 37-46.

Rosenthal, Bernard. ed. Critical Essays on Charles Brockden Brown. Boston: Hall, 1981.

Baym, Nina. "A Minority Reading of Wieland." 87-103.

Bennett, Charles E. "Charles Brockden Brown: Man of Letters." 212-223.

Carpenter, Charles A. "Selective Bibliography of Writings about Charles Brockden Brown." 224-239.

Davidson, Cathy N. "The Matter and Manner of Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin." 71-86.

Elliot, Emory. "Narrative Unity and Moral Resolution in Arthur Mervyn." 142-63.

Krause, Sydney J. "Clara Howard and Jane Talbot: Godwin on Trial." 184-211.

Rosenthal, Bernard. "The Voices of Wieland." 104-25.

Scheick, William J. "The Problem of Origination in Brown's Ormond." 126-41.

Witherington, Paul. "'Not My Tongue Only': Form and Language in Brown's Edgar Huntly." 164-83.

Russo, James R. " 'The Chimeras of the Brain': Clara's Narrative in Wieland." Early American Literature 16.1 (Sprg 1981): 60-88.

Samuels, Shirley. "Wieland: Alien and Infidel." Early American Literature 25.1 (1990): 46-66.

Samuels, Shirley. "Plague and Politics in 1793: Arthur Mervyn." Criticism 27.3 (Sumr 1985): 225-46.

Scheiber, Andrew J. "'The Arm Lifted against Me': Love, Terror, and the Construction of Gender in Wieland." Early American Literature 26.2 (1991): 173-94.

Schnell, Michael. "'The Sacredness of Conjugal and Parental Duties': The Family, the Twentieth Century Reader, and Wieland." Christianity and Literature 44.3-4 (Sprg-Sumr 1995): 259-73.

Seelye, John. "Charles Brockden Brown and Early American Fiction." Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed. Emory Elliot. NY: Columbia UP, 1987.

Slater, John F. "The Sleepwalker and the Great Awakening: Brown's Edgar Huntly and Jonathan Edwards." Papers on Language and Literature 19.2 (Sprg 1983): 199-217.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Subject Female: Authorizing American Identity." American Literary History 5.3 (Fall 1993): 481-511.

| Top | Spangler, George M. "C. B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn: A Portrait of the Young American Artist." American Literature 52.4 (Jan 1981): 578-92.

Sullivan, Michael P. "Reconciliation and Subversion in Edgar Huntly." American Transcendental Quarterly 2.1 (Mar 1988): 5-22.

Surratt, Marshall N. "'The Awe Creating Presence of the Deity': Some Religious Sources for Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." Papers on Language and Literature 33.3 (Sumr 1997): 310-24.

Tilton, Eleanor M. "In the Labyrinth of Charles Brockden Brown's Prose: The Bicentennial Edition." Early American Literature 19.2 (Fall 1984); 191-208.

Toles, George. "Charting the Hidden Landscape: Edgar Huntly." Early American Literature 16.2 (Fall 1981): 133-53.

Voloshin, Beverly R. "Edgar Huntly and the Coherence of the Self." Early American Literature 23.3 (1988); 262-80.

- - -. "Wieland: 'Accounting for Appearances.'" New England Quarterly 59.3 (Sep 1986): 341-57.

Warchol, Tomasz. "Formal and Thematic Patterns in Edgar Huntly." Ball State University Forum 28.3 (Sumr 1987): 16-24. 

Weldon, Robert F. "Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland: A Family Tragedy." Studies in American Fiction 12.1 (Sprg 1984): 1-11.

Young, Philip. "Born Decadent: The American Novel and Charles Brockden Brown." Southern Review 17.3 (Jul 1981): 501-19.  

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