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In the following essay, Manly suggests that Wieland has more in common with the darker works of Poe and Hawthorne than with the sentimental tradition with which it is often associated.
Students of Cha...
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In the following essay, Axelrod examines possible old world and new world sources for several of the characters and narrative elements in Wieland.
James Yates, known to the community of Tomhannock, Ne...
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In the following essay, Weldon explores Wieland as the tragedy of an entire family and an entire society, rather than of one man.
In Wieland Charles Brockden Brown creates a family and shows how its f...
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In the following essay, Patrick argues against critics who claim that Wieland is an unsophisticated novel dependent on the conventions of Gothic and sentimental novels. According to Patrick, the novel...
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In the following essay, Pribek refutes the notion that the characters of Wieland are inherently evil, suggesting instead that they should be read as rational characters who are undone by the villainy ...
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In the following essay, Christophersen focuses on Clara's transformation as a metaphor for the transformation of America from British colony to young nation.
Literature … has a relations...
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In the following essay, Samuels explores the connections between family and nation and the threat to both from outsiders as a prominent theme of Wieland.
An eighteenth-century New England minister who...
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In the following essay, O'Shaughnessy examines the deliberate manipulation of readers' interpretive responses to events in the plot of Wieland.
In the “Epistle to the Reader, ...
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In the following essay, Scheiber explores the ambiguity of Clara's characterization, attributing that ambiguity to her status within masculine and patriarchal institutions of the time.
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In the following essay, Hinds discusses issues of class and inheritance in Wieland.
Within the unfolding drama of international capitalism, Wieland, or The Transformation: An American Tale appears les...
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In the following essay, Soldati discusses the blending of the Icarus and Narcissus myths achieved by Brown in the characterization of Theodore Wieland and his sister Clara.
In Western literature, espe...
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In the following essay, Franklin suggests that the primary sources for Wieland were Shakespeare's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing.
Many critics and scholars have written extensively about the...
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In the following essay, Ridgely studies the various transformations of Brown's characters in Wieland.
Wieland is a nocturnal tale, a nervous melodrama played out in the uncertain illumination o...
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In the following essay, Gilmore claims that Milton's Paradise Lost provided the inspiration for Brown's Wieland.
Charles Brockden Brown's “Gothic” novel Wieland; or ...
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In the following essay, Russo disputes common theories that attribute the perceived incoherence of Wieland's plot to Brown's incompetence as a writer, claiming that it is not Brown, but ...
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In the following essay, Jordan suggests that Wieland's ending, often considered flawed, represents a deliberate strategy of the author to caution readers about hastily-drawn conclusions.
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In the following essay, Kreyling explores Wieland's decentered universe by means of the Derridean theory of endless freeplay.
Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and ...
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In the following essay, Fussell suggests that Clara Wieland's struggle to produce the narrative of her family story parallels Brown's struggle to produce a new American literature.
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Critical Essay by William M. Manly
