Charles
Brockden Brown is
the author of Weiland; or, the Transformation:
An American Tale; Arthur Mervyn, or Memoirs
of the Year 1793; Ormond, and
Edgar Huntley, or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker.
Brown was an ardent admirer of Godwin
whose Caleb Williams inspired
Arthur Mervyn. Godwin's
Mandeville, in turn, was influenced
by Wieland.Brown's work also influenced such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Keats found Wieland Very Powerful. More clever in plot and incident than Godwin - A strange american scion of the German trunk. Powerful genius - accomplish'd horrors.
