PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century: Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) 

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Oil on canvas, 1863
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Philosopher, reviewer, editor, minister, and essayist, Brownson was a nonconformist who questioned the existing social, religious, and political practices.

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Selected writings. Ed. Patrick W. Carey. NY: Paulist Press, 1991. BX2350 .B742

The Boston quarterly review. Absorbed by: The United States magazine and democratic review; in 1844 Brownson began the publication of a new periodical under title: Brownson's quarterly review. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1838-1842. LAC: v.1 (1838)-v.5 (1842)

The Works of Orestes A. Brownson. 20 vol. (1882-1887), Henry F. Brownson, Ed.

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Barcus, James E. "Structuring the Rage Within: The Spiral Autobiographies of Newman and Orestes Brownson." Cithara 15.1 (1975): 45-57.

Barnes, Daniel R. "Orestes Brownson and Hawthorne's Holgrave." American Literature 45 (1973): 271-78.

- - -. "Brownson and Newman: The Controversy Re Examined." ESQ 50 (1968): 9-20.

"Brownson, Orestes Augustus." Dictionary of Literary Biographies. Vols. 5, 59,73 ed. 1982

Cameron, Kenneth W. "Thoreau and Orestes Brownson." ESQ 51 (1968): 53-65.

Capps, Donald. "Orestes Brownson: The Psychology of Religious Affiliation." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 7 (1968): 197-209.

Doudna, Martin K. Orestes A. Brownson, The Laboring Classes (1840) with Brownson's Defence of the Article on the Laboring Classes. Delmar, NY: Scholar's Facsims. & Rpts., 1978.

Gilhooley, Leonard. Contradiction and Dilemma: Orestes Brownson and the American Idea. Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham U.P, 1972.

- - -. "Brownson, the American Idea, and the Early Civil War." Thought 53 (1978): 55-69.

- - -. Orestes Augustus Brownson. The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. NY: MLA, 1984.

Gilhooley, Leonard, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. No Divided Allegiance: Essays in Brownson's Thought. NY: Fordham UP, 1980.

Girgus, Sam B. "The Scholar as Prophet: Brownson vs Emerson and the Modern Need for a Moral Humanism." Midwest Quarterly 17 (1975): 88-99.

| Top | Griffioen, Arie J. "Brownson's Early Christology." American Benedictine Review 44.1 (Mar 1993): 58-75.

Hanigan, James P., S.J. "Orestes Brownson and the Election of 1840." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 73 (1962): 45-50.

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Brownson on Native New England." New England Quarterly 40 (1967): 212-226.

Karcher, Carolyn L. "Philanthropy and the Occult in the Fiction of Hawthorne, Brownson, and Melville." The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. Eds. John W. Crowley and Charles L. Crow. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1983. 69-97.

- - -. "Spiritualism and Philanthropy in Brownson's The Spirit Rapper and Melville's The Confidence Man." ESQ 25 (1979): 26-36.

Lapati, Americo D. Orestes A. Brownson. NY: Twayne, 1965.

Marshall, Hugh. Orestes Brownson and the American Republic: An Historical Perspective. Wash., D.C.: Catholic U. of Amer. P., 1971.

McDaniel, Isaac, O.S.B. "Orestes A. Brownson on Irish Immigrants and American Nativism." American Benedictine Review 32.2 (1981): 122-39.

Reidy, John P. "Orestes Augustus Brownson:Conservative Mentor To Dissent." American Benedictine Review 21 (Jun 1971): 224-39.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. A pilgrim's progress: Orestes A. Brownson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. B908 .B64 S35

Sveino, Per. "Orestes A. Brownson's New Views; Vol. I." Americana Norvegica: Norwegian Contributions to American Studies. Eds. Sigmund Skard and Henry H. Wasser. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1966.

Swidler, Arlene. "Brownson and the 'Woman Question'." American Benedictine Review 19 (1968): 211-19.

Swift, Lindsay. Brook Farm. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1973.

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