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The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic.
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1995
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Literary HistoryHumanitiesArt HistoryArt CriticismPost-colonial CriticismTransnational HistoryAmerican IdentityPost-revolutionary TensionsLatent SubjectsHauntologyCultural HistoryAmerican GothicVisual CultureIndependent RepublicLanguage StudiesAmerican LiteratureHistorical Analysis
Explores the ways in which Brown's novels reflected America during the 1790s - an America that was proud of its newly-achieved status as an independent republic, but was also plagued by post-revolutionary tensions. This study suggests that these tensions are the novels' latent subjects.