An Adventurous and Lawless Fancy.

From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Charles Brockden Brown's Aesthetic State

On the eve of the series of disasters that will destroy her peace and pleasure, Clara, the narrator of Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland (1798), prepares to hear her brother, Theodore, recite a tragic tale just arrived from Germany and written by a promising novice Saxon poet: 

   The exploits of Zisca, the Bohemian hero, were woven into a dramatic series 
   and connection. According to German custom, it was minute and diffuse, and 
   dictated by an adventurous and lawless fancy. It was a chain of audacious 
   acts, and ...

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