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  title info:
    title: American Proteus
    sub title: narrative self-making in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown
  name:
    name part: Wenke, John Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Brown, Charles Brockden
    name part: 1771-1810
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 324 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: AMERICAN PROTEUS seeks to explain what it means for Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) to have created out of his life experiences and encompassing cultural milieu a novel kind of fiction for a new kind of country. As a work of biographical criticism, this study charts the emergence of Brown's authorial voice as it developed throughout an amorphous, multifaceted and conflicted apprenticeship. This eleven-year period of literary experimentation established the foundation for his brief yet momentous career as a publishing novelist that lasted from 1798 through 1801. Throughout such novels as WIELAND (1798), ORMOND (1799), ARTHUR MERVYN (1799-1800) and EDGAR HUNTLY (1799), Brown dramatizes how authorship and self-making constitute reciprocal processes. By drawing on Gothic and epistolary aesthetics as well as Enlightenment principles, Brown reveals how his subversive artist-figures reject ideological confinements of attending social forms, whether theological, cultural or political.
  note: John Wenke.
  note: includes biographical references (pages [305]-315) and index.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 1783-1850
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS1137 .W465 2025
  identifier: 9780881469929
  identifier: 0881469920
  record info:
    record content source: GMU
    record creation date: 251002
    record change date: 20251110193405.5
    record identifier: in00005668467