Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist
Mar 16, 2025•4 min•Ep. 377
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Biographical Bytes from Bala #042, section 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.
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