...believed himself to be an innovator, may be seen from the following description of his " one merit — that of calling forth the passions and engaging the...hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras are the materials usually employed...

...clung. In his preface to "Huntly" he says: "One merit at least the writer may claim, that of calling up the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually...

...makes explicit in the preface to Edgar Huntley: ". . . One merit the writer may at least claim—that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by * Dunlap's Life of Brown, I, 107. means hitherto unemployed. . . . Puerile superstition and exploded...

...fourth novel Brown emphasized his determination to depict American scenery and foster native fiction : One merit the writer may at least claim; — that...the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding "Edgar Huntley ; or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (Philadelphia, 1799, 1800). authors. Puerile superstition...

...fourth novel Brown emphasized his determination to depict American scenery and foster native fiction : One merit the writer may at least claim; — that...the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding "Edgar Huntley; or. Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (Philadelphia, 1799, 1800). authors. Puerile superstition...

...connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or affections of the human frame. One merit the writer may at least claim ; that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and...

...connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or affections of the human frame. One merit the writer may at least claim: that of calling forth the passions and energy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstition and exploded...

..." Monk " Lewis. Charles Brockden Brown, one of the earliest American novelists, prides himself on " calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means not hitherto employed by preceding authors," and speaks slightingly of " puerile superstitions and...

...our country, and connected with one of the most common and wonderful diseases of the human f rame. One merit the writer may at least claim: that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and...

...connected with one of the most common and wonderful diseases of the human frame. One merit the author may at least claim : that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and...