The unfinished story of the bilingual ventriloquist clarifies some of the uncertainty surrounding his character in "Wieland". Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Paperback) Charles Brockden Brown Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom (1991) ISBN 10: 0140390790 ISBN 13: 9780140390797 New Paperback Quantity: 10 Seller: Book Depository International (London, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. "Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist" was published in fragments in Brown's Literary Magazine later, and tells the story of Carwin prior to his involvement in "Wieland". This epistolary and highly psychological novel details the horrible events that befall siblings Clara and Theodore Wieland and their family. "Wieland", Brown's most highly regarded novel, is deemed to be the first gothic novel by an American. His work also reflects an interest in the early feminist movement, and frequently draws on Enlightenment-era medical writings by authors like Erasmus Darwin. Brown's works are a combination of his own Romantic imagination and the Enlightenment ideals of reason and realism, and are often characterized by elements of the sensational and violent. Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was an American novelist, historian and editor, who has been recognized as one of the first American novelists and an early proponent of the Gothic romance genre.
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