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The writings of Hearn's American years reveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) is a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadowing Hearn's later fascination with Asian themes. The exquisitely crafted novels Chita (1889), about the devastation wrought by a Louisiana hurricane, and Youma (1890) about a slave rebellion in Martinique, epitomize his writing at its most luxuriantly romantic. His extraordinary travel book Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) provides a richly impressionistic account of his long stay on Martinique and other Caribbean islands.
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Arthur Mervyn
Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication.Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much in its portrait of \" right virtue, \" which was Brown's primary aim, as in its realistic descriptions of the yellow fever epidemic and the ensuing.
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INFECTIOUS FICTION: PLAGUE AND THE NOVELIST IN \ARTHUR MERVYN\ AND \THE LAST MAN\
Opponents of the burgeoning novel often compared its effects to the plague. Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn (1799) and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) overturn these accusations by demonstrating that the distinctive occupation of novel-writing promotes survival amidst the devastation of apocalyptic contagion. Both Brown and Shelley used writing as therapy after great loss, and their protagonists similarly survive by becoming novelists. Arthur Mervyn and Lionel Verney continue to record and to imagine when all other systems of communication collapse. Brown and Shelley suggest not only that novel-writing offers medication against the world’s infections, moral and otherwise, but also that it has the potential to prevent future outbreaks. This effect is especially evident in The Last Man , in which Lionel’s writing travels through time with the result that the apocalyptic future that he records could be prevented due to the particular infectiousness of the novel form.
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John Leonard Riddell, Pioneer
Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation by John Leonard Riddell (1807-1865) seems to be the first hard science-fiction story. Emergent from the author's interest in scientific interplanetary travel, it postulates an antigravity substance based (fantastically, of course) upon Michael Faraday's experiments in electricity and magnetism, but otherwise holds firm to contemporary science. The voyage, following the narrative strategy of a balloon ascension, describes a successful passage around the moon, which is realistically viewed as a lifeless planet. The author (who was professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University) was well known for the invention of the compound microscope. A very versatile scientist, he made significant contributions to medical microbiology and theoretical physics. In later life he had an interesting political career under the Confederacy and as rump governor of Louisiana during the military occupation of the state by the Union armies.
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Art imitates life: Edward G. Landsdale and the fiction of Vietnam - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i1.6435
Neste artigo, examina-se a adaptação de uma pessoa histórica, o oficial da Força Aérea e agente da CIA Edward G. Landsdale, como modelo para personagens ficcionais em três romances – um inglês, um americano e um francês – que abordam os primeiros anos do envolvimento americano no Vietnã. É delineada sua carreira política, bem como os antecedentes históricos de sua contribuição para a criação do Estado anticomunista do Vietnã do Sul. Em seguida, faz-se um estudo de sua ficcionalização em The Quiet American , de Graham Greene (1955), The Ugly American (1958), de Eugene Burdick e William J. Lederer, e Yellow Fever , de Jean Lartéguy (Tradução inglesa de 1965). Observa-se que o modelo de Greene é questionado, enquanto todos os três romances, na verdade, subestimam a importância histórica de Landsdale.
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Urban Gothic
At the beginning of the last chapter on the Frontier Gothic, I attended briefly to three contemporary American films,Sleepy Hollow,The Blair Witch ProjectandThe Village, each of which illustrates the archetypal significance of the haunted American wilderness to the constitution of American identity. I then traced this theme back to its literary origination in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Somnambulism’,Wielandand most of allEdgar Huntly. My argument in that chapter – in keeping with the assertions of Downes, Hamelman, Newman, Seelye and other contemporary critics, as well as those of Brown himself in his ‘To the Public’ at
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A Polemical Introduction
This book is a contribution to the University of Wales Press’s Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions series, which has among its objectives to offer new perspectives on and to reinvigorate discussion of canonical and neglected Gothic authors. Late eighteenth-to early nineteenth-century American Gothicist Charles Brockden Brown has the odd and seemingly paradoxical distinction of arguably beingbothcanonical – an established figure within the American literary tradition – and, simultaneously, neglected. This contradictory duality in large measure has to do with the critics’ suspicion that although Brown was first in many things, he was not among the best. As Bernard Rosenthal pointed out
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The Transformation, the Self Devoted, and the Dead Recalled
Charles Brockden Brown spent the autumn of 1797 incommunicado in Philadelphia. He was writing “something in the form of a Romance.” In September, Elihu Hubbard Smith begged for details, but Brown would offer none; he would not even say whether he was reviving an old project or launching a brand-new one. Months passed, and Brown’s New York friends heard no news. On 30 November 1797, Smith mailed Brown a one-line reproach: “Charles! are you dead?”¹
Brown finished his manuscript on the last day of 1797. For the first time, he had written a novel all the way to its conclusion.
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