Charles Brockden Brown (1771 1810), a prolific and often controversial writer, has long been recognized as a significant figure in U.S. literary and cultural history. Brown s prose fiction, periodical writings, historiography, and pamphlets take part in the full range of political, literary, scientific, and other debates that form the cultural landscape of the first decades of the American republic from 1790 to 1810. Scholarship in the twentieth century developed a general understanding of Brown as an ambitious novelist but only began to explore the full extent of his writings and the...