Comprehensive Primary Bibliography
The Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, 1783-1822
Introduction Publications Manuscripts Removed Items Abbreviations & Works CitedAbbreviations and Works Cited
Last updated 6/12/2015
A. Initials of editors and contributors:
- AW: Alfred Weber
- BW: Bryan Waterman
- FF: Fritz Fleischmann
- JH: John Holmes
- JG: Jared Gardner
- MB: Michelle Burnham
- MC: Michael Cody
- OS: Oliver Scheiding
- PHB: Philip Barnard
- RB: Robert Battistini
- SE: Scott Ellis
- WS: Wolfgang Schäfer
B. MS Collections (from Holmes & Cavnar, 1998):
- Bowdoin: Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Bowdoin College
- Columbia: Butler Library, Columbia University
- Harvard: Widener Library, Harvard University
- Haverford: Quaker Collection, Haverford College
- HSP: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Kent: Kent State University Library, Kennedy MS
- LCP: Library Company of Philadelphia
- LC: Library of Congress
- NYHS: New York Historical Society
- NYPL: New York Public Library
- Princeton: Firestone Library, Princeton University
- Private: Private Collection(s), sold by The Rendells, Inc., 1990
- Texas: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas
- Virginia: Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia
C. Database:
- APS: American Periodical Series (on ProQuest database)
- NIP: Not in ProQuest
Abrams, M.H. (1953). The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York: Oxford UP.
Allen, Paul (1811 [1975]). The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: A Facsimile Reproduction. Charles E. Bennettt, ed. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints.
_____ (1811 [1976]). The Late Charles Brockden Brown. Robert E. Hemenway and Joseph Katz, eds. Columbia SC: Faust.
Barnard, Philip (1987). Charles Brockden Brown: Early-Romantic Literature in the United States. Dissertation: State U of New York at Buffalo.
_____ (2004). "Culture and Authority in the Historical Sketches." In Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Politics, Culture, and Sexuality in the Early Republic, 310-331. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P.
Bennett, Charles E. (1974). The Charles Brockden Brown Canon. Dissertation: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
_____ (1976). "The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown: An Annotated Census." Resources for American Literary Study 6, 164-190.
_____ (1980). "Charles Brockden Brown and the International Novel." Studies in the Novel 12 (1980), 62-64.
Clark, David Lee (1948). "Unpublished Letters of Charles Brockden Brown and W. W. Wilkins." University of Texas Studies in English 17 (June 1948), 75-107.
_____ (1952). Charles Brockden Brown: Pioneer Voice of America. Durham: Duke UP.
Cody, Michael (2004). Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
Cope, Thomas Pym. (1978). Philadelphia Merchant: the Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800- 1851. Edited and with an introd. and appendices by Eliza Cope Harrison. South Bend, IN: Gateway Editions.
Dunlap, William (1815). The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together with Selections from the Rarest of His Printed Works, from His Original Letters, and from His Manuscripts Be fore Unpublished. 2 volumes. Philadelphia: James P. Parke.
_____ (1832). History of the American Theater. 2 Volumes. New York: Harper.
_____ (1834). "Charles Brockden Brown." In James Herring and James B. Longacre, eds. Na tional Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. Vol. III. New York: M. Bancroft.
_____ (1930). Diary of William Dunlap (1766-1839) : the Memoirs of a Dramatist, Theatri cal Manager, Painter, Critic, Novelist, and Historian. 3 volumes. Dorothy C. Barck, ed. New York: The New-York Historical Society.
Duyckinck, Evert A. Cyclopaedia of American Literature. Philadelphia, New York, London: T.E. Zell, 1875.
Gardner, Jared (2006). "From the Periodical Archives: 'THE SCRIBBLER,' by Charles Brock den Brown." American Periodicals 16.2, 219-228.
Holmes, John R. (1995). "Charles Brockden Brown's Earliest Letter." Early American Litera ture 30 (1995), 71- 77.
_____ and M.M. Cavnar (1998). "A Revised Checklist of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown." Typescript.
Kennedy, Daniel Edwards (1945). Charles Brockden Brown: A Biography. 2,200 page typescript and manuscript draft. Charles Brockden Brown Collection, Institute for Bibliography and Editing, Kent State University.
Krause, Sydney J., and Jane Nieset (1966). "A Census of the Works of Charles Brockden Brown." The Serif: Kent State University Library Quarterly III.4 (December), 27-55.
Levine, Robert S. (2004). "Race and Nation in Brown's Louisiana Writings." In Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Politics, Cul ture, and Sexuality in the Early Republic, 332-353. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P.
Peden, William (1944). "Thomas Jefferson and Charles Brockden Brown." Maryland Quar terly 1 (Spring 1944), 65-68.
Slawinski, Scott (2005). Validating bachelorhood : audience, patriarchy, and Charles Brock den Brown's editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review. New York: Routledge.
Smith, Elihu Hubbard (1793). American Poems, Selected and Original. Vol. I. Litchfield, CT: Printed by Collier and Buel.
_____ (1973). Diary of Elihu Hubbard Smith. James Cronin, ed. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Stearns, Bertha Monica (1935). "Charles Brockden Brown: A Speculation." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography59, 99-105.
Terra, Helmut de (1958). "Studies of the Documentation of Alexander von Humboldt: The Phila delphia Abstract of Humboldt's American Travels; Humboldt Portraits and Sculpture in the United States." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society102.6 (Dec. 15, 1958), 560-589.
Warfel, Harry, ed. (1943). The Rhapsodist and Other Uncollected Writings, by Charles Brock den Brown. New York: Scholar's Facsimiles and Reprints.
_____ (1949). Charles Brockden Brown: American Gothic Novelist. Gainesville FL: U of Florida P.
Waterman, Bryan (2007). Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins UP.
Weber, Alfred (1961). "Essays und Rezensionen von Charles Brockden Brown." Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 8, 168-330.
_____ (1987). Somnambulism and Other Stories. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
_____ with John Holmes (1992). Charles Brockden Brown: Literary Essays and Reviews. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
_____ , Wolfgang Schäfer, and Fritz Fleischmann (2003). "Preliminary and Chronological Bib liography of C.B. Brown's Uncollected Writings." Typescript developed for planning stages of CBBSE project. Initial state of the present bibliography.