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Wieland
Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
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This early horror story follows an ill-fated New York farmer who hears demonic voices urging him to kill his family.
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Charles Brockden Brown has been called the "father of American novel." It's a designation that seems more than a bit ironic, given that his first published novel is about a father who murders his family. Written after the American Revolution, Wieland expresses the anxiety over individualism and authority in the post-war country — the family lives apart from the community and the father listens only to himself and what he perceives to be the voice of God. Narrating the... more
—Lisa Tucker
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