| Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Contributor(s): Brown, Charles Brockden (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606643851 ISBN-13: 9781606643853 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Charles Brockden Brown's novels are most often remembered as gothic fiction -- but he wasn't at all writing the sort of thing Ann Radcliffe was in his years writing on the other side of the Atlantic. His books were often violent, and full of the pointy-headed intellectuality of his day: they were drawn from late-Enlightenment scientific and medical thinking. Perhaps they're in debt to Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Holcroft -- and perhaps to the German "Schauer-romantik" of Friedrich Schiller. He built plots around motifs like sleepwalking and religious mania. Jane Talbot is an epistolary novel, (that is, a novel in the form of a series of letters), and, like all of Brown's works, it's a gripping tale, and more than a little gothic. Enjoy! |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 212 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Charles Brockden: - "Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution." |