List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmet, and Stephen Shapiro I. Biography 1. Early Years, 1771-1795 Lisa West 2. Later Years, 1795-1810 Bryan Waterman II. Romances 3. Wieland; or, the Transformation of American Literary History Duncan Faherty 4. Ormond; or, The Secret Witness Nicholas E. Miller 5. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Michael J. Drexler 6. Felons and Fallacies: An Antipodean Edgar Huntly Hilary Emmett 7. Stephen Calvert's Unfinished Business Christopher Looby 8. Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters Philip Barnard 9. Jane Talbot, A Novel Stephen Shapiro III. The History-Fiction Nexus 10. History, Romance, and the Novel Gretchen J. Woertendyke 11. Historical Sketches Philip Barnard 12. Political Pamphlets Stephen Shapiro 13. "Annals of Europe and America" and Brown's Contribution to Early American Periodicals Mark L. Kamrath IV. Writings in Other Genres 14. Letters Elizabeth Hewitt 15. Poetry Michael C. Cohen 16. Short Fiction Scott Slawinski V) Politics and the World-System 17. Brown and the Woldwinites Abigail Smith Stocker 18. Brown and Women's Rights Fritz Fleischmann 19. Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown Leonard von Morzé 20. Brown's Philadelphia Quaker Milieu Robert Battistini 21. Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere Anthony Galluzzo 22. Brown, Empire, and Colonialism Andy Doolen VI) The Body and Medical Knowledges 23. Brown and Physiology Stephen Rachman 24. Brown and Yellow Fever Scott Ellis 25. Brown and Sex Jordan Alexander Stein VII) Literary Forms, Aesthetics, and Culture 26. Brown's American Gothic Robert Miles 27. Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism Michelle Burnham 28. Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World Siân Silyn Roberts 29. Brown and Classicism Oliver Scheiding 30. Brown's Studies in Geography Martin Brückner 31. Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture Sarah Boyd VIII) Reception 32. Brown's Literary Afterlife Ezra Tawil 33. Brown's Early Biographers and Reception, 1815-1940s Michael A. Cody 34. Brown's Later Biographers and Reception, 1949-2s Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds 35. Brown Studies Now and in Transition Hannah Lauren Murray Index

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"...The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown is not so much a classroom textbook as a perfect university library resource that offers students and professional scholars alike accessible, scholarly discussion and analysis of all aspects of this major early American author's life and work...Read Charles Brockden Brown-or this wonderful and most timely handbook-today, better to understand the complexities, paradoxes, and ambiguities of polyphonic social, cultural, and political discourse tomorrow." -- Evert Jan Van Leeuwen, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Early American Literature "Barnard, Emmett, and Shapiro have produced a wonderful addition to the Oxford Handbook series that does exactly what such a handbook should do... Read Charles Brockden Brown--or this wonderful and most timely handbook--today, better to understand the complexities, paradoxes, and ambiguities of polyphonic social, cultural, and political discourse tomorrow." -- Early American Literature Â

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Philip Barnard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. He has published editions of the four canonical romances of Charles Brockden Brown and is currently Textual Editor of the Brown electronic archive and Bucknell Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown edition. Hilary Emmett is Senior Lecturer in American Studies (Literature and Culture) in the Department of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. A member of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC), he has published more than 15 books and editions.

Selling point: Provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic Selling point: Reveals the contributions of a crucial figure in the history of the American novel Selling point: Extends focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career