His primary interest was in the nation’s cultural history between 16. Jay Fliegelman (1949–2007) taught American literature and American Studies at Stanford University. By the 1820s, a decade after his death, Brown was ranked with Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper as the embodiment of American literary genius, the first American writer to successfully bridge the gulf between entertainment and art in fiction. All four are remarkably sophisticated moral, psychological, and political allegories that burned into the artistic consciousness of Poe, Hawthorne, Fenimore Cooper, and Melville. Four of those romances earned him the perhaps dubious title of "father of the American novel"- Wieland (1798), Ormond (1799), Arthur Mervyn (PPart II, 1800), and between those two parts, Edgar Huntly (1799).
By 1795 Brown was earnestly devoted to fiction once engaged, he composed at a breakneck pace, publishing between 17 seven romances, a long pro-feminist dialogue, and numerous sketches and tales. In his early twenties he committed himself to literature and avidly read the latest models from England and Europe-especially Rousseau, Bage, Godwin, Southey, and Coleridge. Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was born to a merchant Quaker family in Philadelphia, and was educated at Robert Proud’s school.
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