{"title":"Historical Sketches","authors":"Philip Barnard","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Historical Sketches is a book-length ensemble of unfinished historical-fiction fragments, dispersed in three print sources, that date from the 1803–1807 years of Charles Brockden Brown’s Literary Magazine and likely primarily from 1805 to 1806. It stands as his longest and most experimental fictional project. This chapter reviews textual issues that have hindered fuller scholarly response to date, as well as the close relations between this c. 1805 ensemble, analogous career-long projects, and Brown’s theory of romance as conjectural history, from 1792 to 1793 forward. It surveys the general features of the ensemble on three levels: (1) the world-systemic geographical-historical scope of the narrative, which emphasizes periphery-center dynamics and uneven development; (2) its depiction of modernizing governmental and disciplinary systems, in which cultural practices are recognized as social-ideological technologies; and (3) its metafictional, metageneric reflections on Romantic-era “historical romance” as a symptom of the period’s emergent nostalgic medievalism and nationalist ideologies.","PeriodicalId":447098,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127475809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short Fiction","authors":"Scott Slawinski","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.19","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter on Charles Brockden Brown’s short fiction provides an overview of eight tales written by Brown and published in various magazines, offering interpretative discussion of the texts and how they fit into the larger Brown oeuvre. These works deal with historical events, state-sponsored and individual acts of violence, secrecy, sensibility, gender roles, and insanity. Brown develops in these tales themes commonly found in his novels, and he often employs some of his favorite narrative devices, gothic or otherwise. Like his other writings, his stories reveal how Brown absorbed the transatlantic intellectual currents of his day and presented them effectively within a compact space.","PeriodicalId":447098,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122239895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Felons and Fallacies","authors":"H. Emmett","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199860067.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199860067.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"Taking as a point of departure Paul Giles’s recent proposition of an antipodean America whereby America and Australia entered in the late eighteenth century into a triangulated relationship with Britain (as the old colony and the new vis-à-vis their imperial forebear), this chapter posits Edgar Huntly as a novel that is highly aware of the expansion of the business of empire building occurring in the 1780s. Most significantly for the emerging field of antipodean or trans-Pacific American studies, the chapter argues not only that Charles Brockden Brown’s foregrounding of violence between indigenous and settler communities contests the doctrine of terra nullius (uninhabited land) on which Australia was founded but also that his representation of Arthur Wiatte and Clithero Edny as Irish convicts equally stages a critique of transportation.","PeriodicalId":447098,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124065329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetry","authors":"Michael C. Cohen","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.17","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the poetry of Charles Brockden Brown. It situates poetry writing within Brown’s biography, including his early childhood and education at Friends Latin School, and then tracks how the circulation of poetry in manuscript formed the basis for his most important personal relationships in the 1790s and 1800s. It also demonstrates how writing and publishing poetry in the major periodicals of Philadelphia and New York facilitated Brown’s entry into the magazine culture of the Federalist period. The chapter discusses examples of Brown’s childhood verse, his epistolary poems, his pseudonymous newspaper poetry, and the poems he published in magazines during the last decade of his life. Overall, the chapter argues that Brown’s poetry offers a different perspective on the development of his career, while at the same time showing how the rich literary culture of the early republic could be both local and transatlantic.","PeriodicalId":447098,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121574266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}