CRITICISM

Bauer, Ralph. “Between Repression and Transgression: Rousseau's Confessions and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland.” American Transcendental Quarterly 10, no. 4 (December 1996): 311-29.

Examines the influence of Rousseau on Brown's construction of Wieland.

Budick, Emily Miller. “Literalism and the New England Mind: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland as American History.” In Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition, pp. 18-35. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Examines the use of the akedah, or the sacrifice of the son by the patriarchal father, in Wieland and other early American texts, and its significance in the interpretation of American history.

Clark, Michael. “Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Robert Proud's History of Pennsylvania.” Studies in the Novel 20, no. 3 (fall 1988): 239-48.

Explores the influence of Robert Proud, Brown's tutor at the Friends Latin School, on Brown, and more specifically, of Proud's History of Pennsylvania on the writing of Wieland.

Dill, Elizabeth. “The Republican Stepmother: Revolution and Sensibility in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 2 (2002): 273-303.

Discusses the allegorical significance of Clara Wieland.

Gable, Harvey L. “Wieland, Othello, Genesis, and the Floating City: The Sources of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland.” Papers on Language and Literature 34, no. 3 (summer 1998): 301-18.

Suggests Shakespeare's Othello as the source and inspiration for Wieland.

Hagenbüchle, Roland. “American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis in Epistemology: The Example of Charles Brockden Brown.” Early American Literature 23, no. 2 (1988): 121-51.

Discusses the way Brown, as early as 1800, was exploring questions of epistemology, a concern that would be a hallmark of the later works of the nineteenth century.

Hesford, Walter. “‘Do You Know the Author?’: The Question of Authorship in Wieland.” Early American Literature 17, no. 3 (winter 1982-83): 239-48.

Examines the many contradictory interpretations concerning which character “authored” the violent events of Wieland.

Hobson, Robert W. “Voices of Carwin and Other Mysteries in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland.” Early American Literature 10, no. 3 (winter 1975): 307-09.

Explores the possibility that Carwin may have been more directly responsible for the murder of Wieland's family than is generally acknowledged in scholarship on Wieland.

Jenkins, R. B. “Invulnerable Virtue in ‘Wieland’ and ‘Comus.’” South Atlantic Bulletin 38, No. 2 (May 1973): 72-75.

Studies the many parallels between Brown's text and Milton's 1634 work, Comus.

Lewis, Paul. “Charles Brockden Brown and the Gendered Canon of Early American Fiction.” Early American Literature 31, no. 2 (1996): 167-88.

Claims that Brown was the first American novelist to explore conflicts between patriarchal culture and feminist challenges to that culture.

Rombes, Nicholas, Jr. “‘All Was Lonely, Darksome, and Waste’: Wieland and the Construction of the New Republic.” Studies in American Fiction 22, no. 1 (spring 1994): 37-46.

Asserts that through the characters of Carwin and Clara, Brown was recommending that America embrace a democracy that would allow different viewpoints to be heard.

Surratt, Marshall N. “‘The Awe-Creating Presence of the Deity’: Some Religious Sources for Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland.” Papers on Language and Literature 33, no. 3 (summer 1997): 310-24.

Claims that the wide variety of religious sources Brown drew on in writing Wieland suggests that the author believed no single religion's world view could account for the complexity of the New World.

Woodard, Maureen L. “Female Captivity and the Deployment of Race in Three Early American Texts.” Papers on Language and Literature 32, no. 2 (spring 1996): 115-46.

Discusses images of female entrapment in Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple, and in Brown's Wieland.

Ziff, Larzer. “A Reading of Wieland.” PMLA 77, no. 1 (March 1962): 51-57.

Maintains that in Wieland Brown questions the sentimental literary tradition and the optimistic psychology of his age, exposing underlying truths about the deprived nature of humanity.

Additional coverage of Brown's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography 1640-1865; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 37, 59, and 73; Feminist Writers; and Reference Guide to American Literature, Edition 4.