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Introduction: Reading Early America with Charles Brockden Brown

Introduction: Reading Early America with Charles Brockden Brown brYan waterMan New York University Introduction Reading Early America with Charles Brockden Brown In the last twenty years, as the period we call the early American republic has gained prominence within the study of American literary his- tory, Charles Brockden Brown’s stock has risen among practitioners. More people, simply put, now read and work on Brown than ever before. The major novels are all readily available in classroom-oriented critical edi- tions and the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition—an expansion on the Kent State University Press Bicentennial Edition of the 1970s and 1980s—continues to move toward production.1 The founding, in 2000, of the Charles Brockden Brown Society attracted members from multiple continents and paved the way for a series of bi- ennial conferences in the United States and Europe. Several papers at the most recent conference, held in October 2008 at the Technische Univer- sität in Dresden, Germany, moved beyond a focus on the relationship be- tween nation and novel (a focus of much criticism in the 1990s) and ex- plored instead Brown’s engagement with globalizing political, economic, and information cultures via his interests in history, language, philosophy, and geography. Whereas a quarter century ago, in her http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Introduction: Reading Early America with Charles Brockden Brown

Waterman, Bryan,
Early American Literature , Volume 44 (2) – Jun 18, 2009
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brYan waterMan New York University Introduction Reading Early America with Charles Brockden Brown In the last twenty years, as the period we call the early American republic has gained prominence within the study of American literary his- tory, Charles Brockden Brown’s stock has risen among practitioners. More people, simply put, now read and work on Brown than ever before. The major novels are all readily available in classroom-oriented critical edi- tions and the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition—an expansion on the Kent State University Press Bicentennial Edition of the 1970s and 1980s—continues to move toward production.1 The founding, in 2000, of the Charles Brockden Brown Society attracted members from multiple continents and paved the way for a series of bi- ennial conferences in the United States and Europe. Several papers at the most recent conference, held in October 2008 at the Technische Univer- sität in Dresden, Germany, moved beyond a focus on the relationship be- tween nation and novel (a focus of much criticism in the 1990s) and ex- plored instead Brown’s engagement with globalizing political, economic, and information cultures via his interests in history, language, philosophy, and geography. Whereas a quarter century ago, in her

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