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351 pages. Softcover. Good condition. FICTION. Charles Brockden Brown, called

351 pages. Softcover. Good condition. FICTION. Charles Brockden Brown, called "the Father of American Literature, " was the first writer of stature the United States produced. In a land barren of literary talent, Brown possessed not only genius but also the courage to rebel against family and the prejudices of his generation. He dared to write fiction in an age when literature for the sake of mere entertainment was considered immoral. His most notable novel, Wieland, or The Transformation, published in 1798, is a Gothic tale with an American setting that replaced such conventions as haunted castles with more unusual devices of terror-the spontaneous combustion of a human being, ventriloquism, and religious mania. Narrated by Clara, the only survivor of the Wieland family, whose history is cursed with tragedies, the story builds in suspense to the night when her brother, in a divinely inspired seizure, nurders his entire family. (Key Words: Gothic Novels, Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Fred Lewis Pattee, Murder, Ventriloquism).