Wieland
Accounting for Appearances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16307342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beverly R Voloshin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341 |
| Publication date | 1986-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/365333 |
| OpenAlex | W2316482180 |
| Language | EN |
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN'S first novel, Wieland; or The Transformation (1798), though marred by excesses and inconsistencies, is a powerful reflection on a century of Enlightenment thought about the harmonious functioning of mind and nature. Drawing on the seminal text in this area, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Brown turns the Lockean paradigm upon itself to cancel almost all of its explanatory power and its assurances about the regularity of mind and nature. In the course of exploring the consequences of the Lockean model, Brown renders a world in frightening flux, where appearance, motive, and character are ambiguous, and in representing that world, he expresses some of the uncertainties of his own postRevolutionary society
Economics · Accounting · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |