The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810
The sixth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents for the first time writing from the final years of Brown's life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register, in which Brown narrates a contemporary history of the United States and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature
Minds in Motion argues that travel literature expedites individual engagements with epistemology because the genre forces authors to determine and disclose the potential value of their individual perspectives, as well as examines how travel writers explore newly configured models of empiricism in the production of experiential knowledge.
The fourth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents the political pamphlets and related writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), a key writer of the U.S. early republic. The texts address the national and wider global contexts of the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo, accompanied by historical commentary.
Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
This book traces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment period in Britain to show how the very concept of political agency was shaped by anti-effeminate ideas and beliefs. This study queers our understanding of the political subject, which is still the basis for debate and argument.
The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 18011807
The third volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents a selection of Brown's published writings between 1801 and 1807. The majority of the volume is devoted to texts that appeared in The Literary Magazine, and American Register, which Brown edited from October 1803 to December 1807, through fifty-one issues.
Postracial America? argues that the notion of "postracial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will it end with his administration. The "postracial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations of this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression.
Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century
Focusing on representative nineteenth-century poets from India, British Guiana, and Australia, Brown Romantics shows how English Romantic poetry and the national traditions that sprang up in the colonies redefined each other and should therefore be read as the single formation, global Romanticism.
This book analyzes the literary production of Spanish writers who place the global economic crisis at the center of their writing. This is the first comprehensive study of crisis literature, which is a genre that arose in response to the transformation of the European welfare state by the forces of liquid capital.
The seventh volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown showcases a comprehensive collection of his poetry. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has never before been collected and many of the works included in this book appear in print for the first time in two hundred years.
