...passion and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic...are the materials usually employed for this end." He for his part was going to deal with facts. He was, in a word, a realist. But who would have guessed...

...the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras,...materials usually employed for this end. The incidents of 1ndian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable . . . These, therefore,...

...the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras,...perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable. . . . These, therefore, are, in part, the ingredients of this tale." Brown is, indeed, the founder...

...the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and- chimeras are the materials usually employed for this end. . . . xThe incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable;...

...in his Edgar Huntley, declared that in that book he was the first to utilize, for literary purposes, the "incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the Western wilderness." He has had a long line of followers, — Cooper, Paulding, Robert Montgomery Bird, William Gilmore...

...in his Edgar Htmiley, declared that in that book he was the first to utilize, for literary purposes, the "incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the Western wilderness." He has had a long line of followers,—Cooper, Paulding, Robert Montgomery Bird, William Gilmore Simms,...

...castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for this end [of calling forth the passions). The incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the Western wilderness are far more suitable; . . .4 That is, the American need wring his imagination less than Europeans because the American experience...

...passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic...America to overlook these would admit of no apology. "Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly, ed. David Lee Clark (New York, 1928), xxiii. 16. [Vol. 7 of...

...novel, he says, is ...that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader... Puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic...America to overlook these would admit of no apology. At the peak of post-Revolutionary fervor such a replacement of conventional European materials with...

...novel, he says, is ...that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader... Puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic...America to overlook these would admit of no apology. At the peak of post-Revolutionary fervor such a replacement of conventional European materials with...