The American novelist and magazine editor Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a predecessor of Edgar Allan Poe in horror fiction and a critic of contemporary literature.Charles Brockden Brown was b...
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From the years immediately after America gained its independence from England until long after, America's literati called for a literature that would reflect well on the artistic capacities of the new...
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Charles Brockden Brown is best known as America's first professional man of letters, a novelist, publisher, and editor whose morally earnest Gothic tales attracted the attention of Keats and Shelley a...
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Often referred to as America's first important novelist, Charles Brockden Brown might also be considered the father of American literature and criticism. Although he had no one integrated theory, Brow...
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Biography EssayFrom the years immediately after America gained its independence from England until long after, America's literati called for a literature that would reflect well on the artistic capaci...
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