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Wieland Or, the Transformation: An American Tale
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Series: Dover Literature: Gothic/Horror
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ISBN10: 0486475999
ISBN13: 9780486475998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jul 21 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486475998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jul 21 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Based on a terrifying real-life incident, this tale of seduction, insanity, and murder is one of America's earliest novels. It unfolds in rural Pennsylvania of the 1760s, where a religious fanatic massacres several members of his family. Part thriller and part psychological drama, it explores the corruption of law and order within a small community.
The American Gothic style of author Charles Brockden Brown combines intellectual and supernatural elements -- a literary mode that influenced later authors such as Poe and Hawthorne. Wieland, his best-known work, was acclaimed by John Keats as very powerful and by John Greenleaf Whittier as a remarkable story. Interpreted variously as a historical parable, an allegorical view of the writing process, and a cautionary tale of unbridled religious fervor, this novel reflects the colonial era's social and political anxieties and offers intriguing glimpses of the American mood at the close of the eighteenth century.
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