WIELAND: or, the Transformation & MEMOIRS OF CARWIN: The Biloquist
by Brown, Charles Brockden
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 087338220X
- ISBN 13
- 9780873382205
- Seller
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Seneca, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil, inherits both his father's estate and religious susceptibility. His idyllic rural life is disrupted when he falls prey to the ventriloquist Carwin, who convinces Wieland that a divine voice is commanding him to slaughter his family. He is tried for the murders of his wife and children, for which he expresses no remorse. He later escapes prison in an attempt to kill his sister Clara, who narrates the story. Clara and Carwin have an ambiguous relationship of attraction and repulsion.Brown's work was an important precursor to such Gothic masters as Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley.
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- Bookseller
- Russ States (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-1129
- Title
- WIELAND: or, the Transformation & MEMOIRS OF CARWIN: The Biloquist
- Author
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 087338220X
- ISBN 13
- 9780873382205
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Kent, OH
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Fiction
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