Peter Kafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Kafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafer |
| SIGNATURE | KAFER P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Renovating Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution
Charles Brockden Brown may have felt the belated effect of the American Revolution far more keenly and directly than any other American writer. Born a Quaker in 1771 in an increasingly antipatriarchal, Whiggish Philadelphia that was throwing off the legacy of William Penn as ruthlessly as it was seeking independence from the Crown, and whose raging paranoia needed to see conspiracy in parliament and pacifism, Brown experienced revolution as a hor…
Charles Brockden Brown and the Pleasures of "Unsanctified Imagination," 1787-1793
C HARLES Brockden Brown wrote strange novels. It was strange too that he wrote novels at all, for Pennsylvania Quakers such as he were not supposed to indulge in fiction, much less write it. Stranger still, while none of his novels is explicitly about Quakers, all four of his major novels are first and foremost explorations of his Pennsylvania Quaker world. They are Quaker texts, but in disguise. This article focuses on the six-year period during…
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Pleasures of "Unsanctified Imagination," 1787-1793
C HARLES Brockden Brown wrote strange novels. It was strange too that he wrote novels at all, for Pennsylvania Quakers such as he were not supposed to indulge in fiction, much less write it. Stranger still, while none of his novels is explicitly about Quakers, all four of his major novels are first and foremost explorations of his Pennsylvania Quaker world. They are Quaker texts, but in disguise. This article focuses on the six-year period during…
Renovating Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution
Charles Brockden Brown may have felt the belated effect of the American Revolution far more keenly and directly than any other American writer. Born a Quaker in 1771 in an increasingly antipatriarchal, Whiggish Philadelphia that was throwing off the legacy of William Penn as ruthlessly as it was seeking independence from the Crown, and whose raging paranoia needed to see conspiracy in parliament and pacifism, Brown experienced revolution as a hor…
Art (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American Literature and Culture (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (1 work) · Race, History, and American Society (1 work) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (1 work)