Name: Wieland, Or, The Transformation
ISBN: 9780872209749

Charles Brockden Brown

Stephen Shapiro

Philip Barnard

A thrilling tale that leads from ventriloquism and mania to a family murder and emotional breakdown, Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition of Wieland includes Brown's Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist and writings on Cicero, as well as his key essays on history and literature, and selections from contemporary German and other texts that figure in the novel's background and in the charged atmosphere of the late 1790s.

Wieland, Or, The Transformation

"A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a loud report, like the explosion of a mine, followed. She uttered an involuntary shriek, but the new sounds that greeted her ear, quickly conquered her surprise. They were piercing shrieks, and uttered without intermission. The gleams which had diffused themselves far and wide were in a moment withdrawn, but the interior of the edifice was filled with rays." -- From "Weiland," by Charles Brockden Brown -- a seminal work both of American literature and the literature of the weird.

An American Tale

Wieland Or The Transformation

andrea

These two novels tell the story of the arrival and affect of the mysterious Carwin on a small Pennsylvanian community prior to the American Revolution