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American novelist, historian and editor (1771-1810)
Also known as: Чарльз Брокден Браун, تشارلز بروكدين براون, チャールズ・ブロックデン・ブラウン, 查尔斯·布罗克登·布朗, Браун Чарльз Брокден
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William Godwin1756–1836ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPhilosophical psychological thrillers like Caleb Williams explore pursuit, guilt and rational inquiry in a manner that directly shaped Brown's novels. (AI reason)
Mary Shelley1797–1851ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetGothic fiction of obsession, transgressive knowledge and unreliable confession echoes Wieland's dark psychological terrain. (AI reason)
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAmerican Gothic tales of madness, ventriloquism-like deception and morbid introspection extend Brown's early American horror. (AI reason)
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDark romances probing religious fanaticism, guilt and the uncanny in an American setting. (AI reason)
Ann Radcliffe1764–1823ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetClassic Gothic suspense with mysterious voices and apparently supernatural events given rational explanation. (AI reason)
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Matthew Gregory Lewis1775–1818ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLurid Gothic narrative of religious mania and moral collapse contemporaneous with Brown. (AI reason)
James Hogg1770–1835ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner shares religious delusion, doubling and unreliable narration with Wieland. (AI reason)
James Fenimore Cooper1789–1851ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFrontier wilderness adventures and conflict that develop the landscape of Edgar Huntly. (AI reason)
Washington Irving1783–1859ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEarly American tales of the uncanny and supernatural rooted in the young republic. (AI reason)
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRadical-era fiction of female reason and sensibility resonant with Clara Howard and Brown's women narrators. (AI reason)
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- Wieland (1798)
- Edgar Huntley (2002)
- Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1973 (1962)
- Ormond, or, The secret witness (1799)
- Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, With Related Texts (2006)