"Reviewers reviewed": John Davis and the early American literary field.(Critical essay)

From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

In Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America, John Davis mentions his first encounter with Charles Brockden Brown in the spring of 1800, where he finds the writer occupying "a dismal room in a dismal street" in New York. "I sought acquaintance with a man," Davis writes, "who had acquired so much intellectual renown. I found Brown quite in the costume of an author"--"a great coat and shoes down at the heels" (163). Having completed Wieland, Ormond, Edgar Huntly, and most of Arthur Mervyn, Brown had certainly earned his costume. At the beginning of the ...

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