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List of contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmet, and Stephen Shapiro
- I. Biography
- 1. Early Years, 1771-1795
- Lisa West
- 2. Later Years, 1795-1810
- Bryan Waterman
- II. Romances
- 3. Wieland; or, the Transformation of American Literary History
- Duncan Faherty
- 4. Ormond; or, The Secret Witness
- Nicholas E. Miller
- 5. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
- Michael J. Drexler
- 6. Felons and Fallacies: An Antipodean Edgar Huntly
- Hilary Emmett
- 7. Stephen Calvert's Unfinished Business
- Christopher Looby
- 8. Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters
- Philip Barnard
- 9. Jane Talbot, A Novel
- Stephen Shapiro
- III. The History-Fiction Nexus
- 10. History, Romance, and the Novel
- Gretchen J. Woertendyke
- 11. Historical Sketches
- Philip Barnard
- 12. Political Pamphlets
- Stephen Shapiro
- 13. "Annals of Europe and America" and Brown's Contribution to
- Early American Periodicals
- Mark L. Kamrath
- IV. Writings in Other Genres
- 14. Letters
- Elizabeth Hewitt
- 15. Poetry
- Michael C. Cohen
- 16. Short Fiction
- Scott Slawinski
- V) Politics and the World-System
- 17. Brown and the Woldwinites
- Abigail Smith Stocker
- 18. Brown and Women's Rights
- Fritz Fleischmann
- 19. Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown
- Leonard von Morzé
- 20. Brown's Philadelphia Quaker Milieu
- Robert Battistini
- 21. Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere
- Anthony Galluzzo
- 22. Brown, Empire, and Colonialism
- Andy Doolen
- VI) The Body and Medical Knowledges
- 23. Brown and Physiology
- Stephen Rachman
- 24. Brown and Yellow Fever
- Scott Ellis
- 25. Brown and Sex
- Jordan Alexander Stein
- VII) Literary Forms, Aesthetics, and Culture
- 26. Brown's American Gothic
- Robert Miles
- 27. Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism
- Michelle Burnham
- 28. Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World
- Siân Silyn Roberts
- 29. Brown and Classicism
- Oliver Scheiding
- 30. Brown's Studies in Geography
- Martin Brückner
- 31. Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture
- Sarah Boyd
- VIII) Reception
- 32. Brown's Literary Afterlife
- Ezra Tawil
- 33. Brown's Early Biographers and Reception, 1815-1940s
- Michael A. Cody
- 34. Brown's Later Biographers and Reception, 1949-2s
- Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
- 35. Brown Studies Now and in Transition
- Hannah Lauren Murray
- Index
About the author
Philip Barnard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. He has published editions of the four canonical romances of Charles Brockden Brown and is currently Textual Editor of the Brown electronic archive and Bucknell Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown edition.
Hilary Emmett is Senior Lecturer in American Studies (Literature and Culture) in the Department of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. A member of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC), he has published more than 15 books and editions.
