Lit: Sec 3 Flashcards
Where did Charles Brockden Brown have his secondary education?
Friends Latin School
What friend of Brown wrote Brown’s first biography and was drawn to New York?
William Dunlap
what was his first book? What was it about?
Alcuin: A Dialogue > a utopia where women have the same rights as men
what work by Nathaniel Hawthorne praised Brown as an excpetional American artist?
Hall of Fantasy
what book by Miguel de Cervantes is considered one of the earlies novels?
Don Quixote
What are the three genres that define novels?
picaresque, sentimental, gothic
what was the first novel Benjamin Franklin printed in his shop?
Pamela
in the advertisement at the beginning of Wieland, Clara is referred to as what?
Lady
Father Wieland was attracted to what French Protestant sect?
Camisards
The story takes place in rural Philadelphia in Mettingen, what river was near here?
Schuylkill
what was the laws of coverture?
all property women brought into marriage became her husband’s
why does Pleyel want to go to Saxony?
has romatnic interest in woman from Leipzig
whose voice does everyone hear at the temple but Clara says it’s impossible
Catharine
Pleyel tells Clara that Carwin committed a crime where?
Ireland
who told Clara that Carwin did not murder the family?
uncle
why isn’t Wieland subjected to capital punishment?
because he is declared as insane
who was president and vice president around the same time Brown published Wieland?
John Adams = president
Thomas Jefferson > vice president
what country was cited for why a representative government controlled by the elite was necessary?
France
To what was Brown referred as the first in the U.S.?
Professional writer
When and where was Charles Brockden Brown born?
January 17, 1771 in Philadelphia, PA
What religion and class did Brown grow up?
Quaker, middle class
What profession did Brown abandon to be a writer?
Law
What disease seemed to “plague” Brown’s life?
Yellow fever
Who did Brown marry?
Married Elizabeth Linn; she was not a Quaker and he was disowned
Brown was critical of this President’s administration, and his failure to protect American access to the Port of New Orleans
Thomas Jefferson
How did Brown die and at what age?
tuberculosis at 39
