Brown called himself a “story-telling moralist.” CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Paul Witherington SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Perhaps it is unduly cynical to suggest that the recent revival in Charles Brockden Brown criticism is occasioned at least as much by an overload on other academic circuits as … Biography. The stimulating posts and discussions about Saul Bellow over the past few days had me thinking about what constitutes good literature. For it seems to me, in light of such debates, that most—if not all—accomplished authors and arresting novels evince a certain conglomeration of conservative and progressive themes. 182 likes. The Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference. Chronology of the Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The Correspondents of Charles Brockden Brown 1788-1809. The Society provides a platform for discussion of and research on Brown and the culture, history, and literature of the North Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Charles Brockden Brown Society invites you to its 7th Biennial Conference: "WEIRD AMERICA: … The Charles Brockden Brown Society was organized at the second biennial Charles Brockden Brown conference in October 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He wrote prolifically in many genres, founded and edited three major magazines, published widely-read political pamphlets, and intervened in many debates about the culture and politics of the new nation. Charles Brockden Brown was born in 1771, five years before the start of the American Revolution, in Philadelphia, the thirteen colonies' intellectual and political center and the city that later became the infant nation's capital. Charles Brockden Brown, writer known as the “father of the American novel.” His gothic romances in American settings were the first in a tradition adapted by two of the greatest early American authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Charles Brockden Brown Society was founded in 2000 as an international scholarly organization to stimulate interest in the life, the times, and the writings of Charles Brockden Brown and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information among Brown … Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) has earned a general reputation as the early republic's most ambitious and accomplished literary figure.