Authors: Charles Brockden Brown, Caleb Crain (Introduction), Caleb Crain (Introduction), Caleb Crain
ISBN-13: 9780375759031, ISBN-10: 0375759034
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: 2002 MODER
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
Called a “remarkable story” by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as “very powerful,” Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life incident.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wieland’s fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other important but hard-to-find Brockden Brown short stories, including “Thessalonica,” “Walstein’s School of History,” and “Death of Cicero.” This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired Wieland.
Biographical Note | ||
Introduction | ||
A Note on the Text | ||
Wieland; or The Transformation: An American Tale | 1 | |
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | 235 | |
Thessalonica: A Roman Story | 297 | |
Walstein's School of History. From the German of Krants of Gotha | 327 | |
Death of Cicero, a Fragment | 341 | |
App | An Account of a Murder Committed by Mr. J[ames] Y[ates], upoon His Family, in December, A.D., 1781 | 361 |
Notes | 367 |