Edgar Huntley de Charles Brockden Brown

Edgar Huntley

Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown is insane. This book is so violent and scary. CBB treats his main character like this voo doo doll, it's awesome. Let's throw him into a cave Now let's throw him down a cliff Now let's make it so that he has to tumble down this mountain and swim across a freezing river Now let's hit him in the face with a tom-a-hawk It's kind of fun. What else is kind of hilarious to me about this book is the fact that it's all written as a letter to his lady. Ha It's a freaking BOOK Then at the end he's all, "Hm. Well, I hope this brief letter finds you well, honey. Wait. It's pages and pages and has taken me weeks and weeks Huh. Would you look at that?" I would poop myself if someone wrote me a letter that long. I had a really hard time automatically assuming the Indians were all bad guys. It's an assumption that readers in the 1790s automatically made. Indian = Bad Guy, but gracious, it was just really disturbing. Oh, America. Such an ugly bloody bloody past you have. I really liked the scary panthers in it and the crazy lady in the woods, Queen Mab. Man, it was gorey. I have more I could say about it, but I should probably read my brother-in-law's chapter about it first and hear what he had to say...

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Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810), an American novelist, historian and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.