Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Brockden Brown was an American writer, novelist, lawyer, journalist, historian and publisher (1771–1810). He was born at Philadelphia.
Charles Brockden Brown in brief
- Born
- 1771
- Died
- 1810
- Known for
- writer, novelist, lawyer, journalist, historian and publisher
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
Contents
Catalogued works
65 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1794 to 2004.
Arthur Mervyn. Edgar Huntly. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Sky-Walk. Wieland. American Fantastic Tales. Clara Howard. Ormond; or, the Secret Witness. Wieland: or, The ventriloquist. An American tale. Ormond. Wieland: or, the Transformation. Wieland; or, the Transformation. Wieland, or, The Transformation. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Alcuin; a dialogue. Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, the American novelist. Ormond, or, The secret witness. Monroe's embassy, or, The conduct of the government, in relation to our claims to the navigation of the Missisippi [i.e., Mississippi]. An address to the government of the United States, on the cession of Louisiana to the French. Jane Talbot. Monroe's embassy. Wieland: or, The ventriloquist. The British treaty. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Wieland, or the transformation. Carwin the Biloquist. Wieland & Memoirs of Carwin, dated 1997. Charles Brockden Browns Wieland Ormond Arthur Mervyn and Edgar Huntly with Related Texts. Wieland, or the Transformation Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Ormond; or, the Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3). Ormond; or, the Secret Witness. Volume 1 (of 3). Ormond, or, the Secret Witness. Clara Howard, or, the Enthusiasm of Love. Wieland or the Transformation Illustration. 5 Books by Charles Brockden Brown. Wieland; or, the Transformation an American Tale. Literary Magazine, and American Register; Volume 5. Literary Magazine, and American Register; Volume 8. Federalist Literati. Novels of Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-Walker. with an Introduction Signed. Wieland; or, the Transformation, Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, a Fragment. The Train with No Name. Wieland : The Transformation. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Esprios Classics). Selected Prose Fiction of Charles Brockden Brown. The Life of Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker; 2. Wieland Or the Transformation. Arthur Mervyn : Large Print Edition. Cameo Ring, dated 1800–25, onyx and gold, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 83.2.119. Tetuan, Morocco, dated 1923, watercolor and gouache on ivory wove paper, laid down on gray board, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1923.337. Dark Star, dated 2003, oil on panel, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2004.13. Cirrocumulus and Nimbus, dated 1978, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.392. Leaning Tower of Touhy, dated 1980, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.393. Pilgrims, dated 1925, lithograph on ivory japanese paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1930.297. Cloudy Night, a Picture That Can Be Hung Upside Down, dated 1978, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.391. Revising Charles Brockden Brown : culture, politics, and sexuality in the early republic / edited by Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro., dated [2004], held by Wellcome Collection. Ormond or the secret witness. By the author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, &c. &c., dated 1800, held by Wellcome Collection. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793 . By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured., dated 1799, held by Wellcome Collection. Wieland; or The transformation An American tale. [Four lines of verse] Copy-right secured., dated 1798, held by Wellcome Collection. The principles of moral and political philosophy . By William Paley, M.A. Archdeacon of Carisle [sic]., dated 1794, held by Wellcome Collection. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker . By the author of Arthur Mervyn, Wieland,--Ormond, &c. Vol I[-III]., dated 1799, held by Wellcome Collection. Ormond or the secret witness. By the author of Wieland; or The transformation., dated 1799, held by Wellcome Collection. A view of the soil and climate of the United States of America : with supplementary remarks upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio, and in Canada; and on the aboriginal tribes of America / by C.F. Volney ... ; translated, with occasional remarks, by C. B. Brown ; with maps and plates., dated 1804, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 3 named public collections.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 53 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 6 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 9 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
POEMS BY CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 1786–1808, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, 2020. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019. Census of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, 2013. Brown and Classicism, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019. Brown and Sex, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019. Marc Amfreville. Charles Brockden Brown. La part du doute., Transatlantica, 2006. Murderous Masculinities the Early Republic of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Gender Studies, 2021. « Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore, Transatlantica, 2019. Walking With the Ghost: Sodomy, Sanity and the Secular in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, European Journal of American Studies, 2017. Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, H. P. Lovecraft, and The Urban Underworld, Iperstoria, 2024. “Castles in Connecticut.” Isaac Mitchell and Alonzo and Melissa (1804): Trans-Hemispheric Gothic in Early America, Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2024. La edición perdida de Wieland en España (ca. 1818), Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2019. Počátky paranormálního modu v americké fantastické literatuře: Charles Brockden Brown, Bohemica Litteraria, 2019.
Digitised editions and texts
19 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.
Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of a sleep walker (1928) — Internet Archive. Wieland (1926) — Internet Archive. Wieland, or the Transformation (Literary Classics) (1997) — Internet Archive. The Novels of Charles Brockden Brown: Consisting of Wieland;or, The Transformation. Arthur ... (1859) — Internet Archive. ormond or the secret witness (1963) — Internet Archive. EDGAR HUNTLY Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1973) — Internet Archive. ORMOND (1937) — Internet Archive. Edgar Huntly (1857) — Internet Archive. Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a sleep-walker (1803) — Internet Archive. Arthur Mervyn (2009) — Internet Archive. Edgar Huntly (Masterworks of Literature Ser) (1973) — Internet Archive. Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale — Project Gutenberg. Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 — Project Gutenberg. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker — Project Gutenberg. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) — Project Gutenberg. Jane Talbot — Project Gutenberg. Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 3 (of 3) — Project Gutenberg. Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 1 (of 3) — Project Gutenberg. Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3) — Project Gutenberg.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 27 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
Chronology
- 1771Charles Brockden Brown born at Philadelphia.
- 1803Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a sleep-walker digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1806The Literary Magazine, and American Register digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1808The Literary Magazine, and American Register digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1810Charles Brockden Brown died at Philadelphia.
- 1811Wieland, or, The transformation digitised by Internet Archive.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
Brown and Classicism, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Brown and Sex, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Census of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, 2013
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Open Library author record for Charles Brockden Brown (Internet Archive), 118 catalogued works.
Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive
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POEMS BY CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 1786–1808, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, 2020
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, 2019
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Directory of Open Access Journals lists 13 articles naming Charles Brockden Brown.
open access index · Unverified
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Internet Archive, 52 digitised items catalogued under Charles Brockden Brown as creator.
digital repository · Unverified
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Project Gutenberg holds 8 full texts attributed to Charles Brockden Brown.
digital repository · Unverified
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The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Charles Brockden Brown.
museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with Charles Brockden Brown (53 objects).
museum collection · Unverified · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Wellcome Collection catalogue records 9 works naming Charles Brockden Brown.
museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q468280: Charles Brockden Brown
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
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“Charles Brockden Brown”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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Elsewhere in Books
15,964 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
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