Wieland, Or, the Transformation - An American Tale, With Related Texts

Informationen zum Autor Philip Barnard is Associate Professor of English! University of Kansas. Stephen Shapiro is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies! University of Warwick. Philip Barnard is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Klappentext Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition of Wieland includes Brown's Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist and writings on Cicero, as well as his key essays on history and literature, and selections from contemporary German and other texts that figure in the novel's background and in the charged atmosphere of the late 1790s. Zusammenfassung A tale that leads from ventriloquism and mania to a family murder and emotional breakdown. It ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Brockden/ Barnard Brown
• Assisted by: Philip Barnard (Editor), Stephen Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2009
• EAN: 9780872209749
• ISBN: 978-0-87220-974-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Hackett Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies