Charles Brockden Browns novels are most often remembered as gothic fiction but he wasnt at all writing the sort of thing Ann Radcliffe was in his yearswriting ... » 

Charles Brockden Browns novels are most often remembered as gothic fiction but he wasnt at all writing the sort of thing Ann Radcliffe was in his yearswriting on the other side of the Atlantic. His books were often violent andfull of the pointyheaded intellectuality of his day they were drawn fromlateEnlightenment scientific and medical thinking. Perhaps theyre in debt toWollstonecraft Godwin Holcroft and perhaps to the German Schauerromantik of Friedrich Schiller. He built plots around motifs like sleepwalkingand religious mania.Jane Talbot is an epistolary novel that is a novel in the form of a seriesof letters and like all of Browns works its a gripping tale and morethan a little gothic. Enjoy «