Charles Brockden Brown

Broschiertes Buch

Memoirs of Stephen Calvert

A Novel

Herausgeber: Harrigan, Charles

Beschreibung

As Stephen Calvert pursues marriage, he encounters baffling difficulties in courting two different women. Struggling to comprehend his circumstances, and on the brink of desperate action, he realizes that at the root of his misfortune is a mystery to be solved. The eponymous narrator relates his story while living a solitary existence in a mountainous wilderness, adopted as a refuge from his prior life of moral corruption and debauch. Originally published in serialized form, Calvert was projected to be a five part narrative but was abandoned after completion of just the first part. Although the story contained in this first part is resolved, we are left wondering how the other four parts may have led to his exile. Memoirs of Stephen Calvert is significant in being the first American novel to depict gay male sexuality (published in 1799-1800).

Autor

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810), an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Darley Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 108mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781955741057
• ISBN-10: 1955741050
• Artikelnr.: 62103266