03163nam 2200613 a 450 991077943020332120230725055845.00-7083-2422-31-299-20092-3(CKB)2550000001003186(EBL)1889085(OCoLC)768119837(SSID)ssj0000742682(PQKBManifestationID)12279554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742682(PQKBWorkID)10762529(PQKB)10906239(MiAaPQ)EBC819818(Au-PeEL)EBL819818(CaPaEBR)ebr10640644(CaONFJC)MIL451342(EXLCZ)99255000000100318620130109d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharles Brockden Brown[electronic resource] /Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockCardiff University of Wales Press20111 online resource (216 p.)Gothic authors: critical revisionsDescription based upon print version of record.0-7083-2419-3 0-7083-2420-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Acknowledgements""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""A Polemical Introduction""; ""A Polemical Introduction""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Frontier Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Frontier Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Urban Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Urban Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Psychological Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Psychological Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Female Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Female Gothic""; ""The Legacy of Charles Brockden Brownâ€?sFour Gothics""""The Legacy of Charles Brockden Brown?sFour Gothics""""Notes""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Index""Spontaneous human combustion, ventriloquism, sleepwalking, secret societies, plague, doppelgängers, disguises, corpses, night burials, locked doors, and mysterious manuscripts-these are only a few of the Gothic devices that appear in the writings of late eighteenth-century American author, Charles Brockden Brown. Brown's work presents us with the dark underside to Enlightenment optimism as he questions the extent to which human beings can draw accurate inferences from sensory data and foresee the outcome of their actions. In advance of Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Ambrose BierGothic authors: critical revisions.Gothic revival (Literature)United StatesHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticismGothic revival (Literature)Horror tales, AmericanHistory and criticism.813.2Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew1091678MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779430203321Charles Brockden Brown3772706UNINA$66.0010/13/2017Eng