Charles Brockden Brown
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist, historian and editor (1771-1810)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1771-01-17 ) January 17, 1771 , Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , British America
- Died
- February 22, 1810 (1810-02-22) (aged 39) , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist historian editor
- Genre
- Gothic fiction
- Notable works
- Wieland (1798) Edgar Huntly (1799) Arthur Mervyn (1799)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- publisher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Charles Brockden Brown Portrait by James Sharples.jpg
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- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Commons category
- Charles Brockden Brown
- date of birth
- 1771-01-01
- date of death
- 1810-01-01
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- English language
- different from
- Charles Brown
- P8168
- Claude Arrieu
- Commons Creator page
- Charles Brockden Brown
- name in native language
- Charles Brockden Brown
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Charles Brockden Brown, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Edgar Huntley oder der Nachtwandler von Charles Brockden Brown, 3
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 6
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 4
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 2,1
Edgar Huntley oder der Nachtwandler von Charles Brockden Brown, 1
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 3,2
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 1
Edgar Huntley oder der Nachtwandler von Charles Brockden Brown, 2
Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 5
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.
Brown is regarded by some scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. 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, poetry, historiography, and reviews) makes him a crucial figure in literature of the early republic. His best-known works include Wieland and Edgar Huntly, both of which display his characteristic interest in Gothic themes. He has been referred to as the "Father of the American Novel."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles Brockden Brown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.