How Do You Know?
At its core, Wieland is an epistemological investigation that examines how we know the world. The novel was written about a century and a half after René Descar...
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Memoirs of Clara Wieland
The following post includes fictional excerpts of Clara’s secret notebook. This is an attempt to understand Clara’s relationship to writing as well as her conne...
The Phenomena of Family-Killing Fatherhood
Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale (1798) was exclusively based on a real notoriously, gruesome crime- the rep...
What is Psychopathy?
What is Psychopathy? Psychopathy involves affective personality styles (Jurjako par. 1). It typically is seen as a mental disorder. People suffering from it -ps...
Other forms of transformation in Weiland
As the title on the novel entails , transformation and constant change are big themes that appear in the novel. This transformation is evident in one of the mai...
Temple Dreaming
Apropos to our reading… How do you imagine the temple? (The original description is on p12.)
A Misconception of the Persona
This blog post is in Catharine Pleyel’s point of view, and whether she really is the ‘perfect’ wife and woman set out by the events from Clara...
Was it Human Combustion? Perspectives on Wieland
An event that could be considered as a central and driving force to the unravelling of peculiar events in Brown’s Wieland, is the father’s spontaneo...