Premium Content Charles Brockden Brown's Clara, an Archetype of the Classic Eighteenth-Century Woman
By Tonja Cox - January 29, 2002
Although Leslie A. Fiedler calls Charles Brockden Brown the "inventor of the American writer," and sees the revolt of the European middle classes translating in America to "feminism and anti-intellectualism," Brockden Brown seems to have a problem imbuing Clara, his narrator in Wieland, with these same qualities (145). From the one-line reference…
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