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Back to EpisodesCharles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist (cenotaph)
Episode 377
Published 1 year, 6 months ago
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BBB:LHWS #042-1 Charles Brockden Brown...
...is regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. His best-known works include Wieland and Edgar Huntly, both of which display his characteristic interest in Gothic themes. His works heavily influenced both Mary Bysshe Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe.