Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly , David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership

Luck, Chad

doi:10.1353/eal.0.0053

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2009

DOI: 10.1353/eal.0.0053

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Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly , David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership

Chad Luck¹

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Speaking in Tongues, Speaking without Tongues: Transplanted Voices in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Schöberlein

2016

J. Am. Stud.

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This essay examines an underexplored aspect of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland – namely its German–Indian context – and reads it through the story's main plot device: ventriloquism. Using some of Brown's manuscripts as well as journalistic pieces, the essay brings together the more puzzling aspects of this central US American gothic tale into a study of colonial violence and transplanted voices. Following Sarah Rivett's recent claim of a “spectral presence of American Indians” in the story, this essay argues for a rereading of the character of the “bioloquist” that brings to the surface a deep history of the dispossession of Native peoples (especially the Lenape) carefully interwoven into the novel's subtext.

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Speaking in Tongues, Speaking without Tongues: Transplanted Voices in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Schöberlein

2016

J. Am. Stud.

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Sleepwalking, Class Mobility, and the Search for the Social Origins of Populism in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly

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2022

J. Am. Stud.

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This paper argues that Brown's sleepwalkers in Edgar Huntly offer us an early figuration for the problems inherent in the phenomenon we now refer to as “populism.” Both populism and sleepwalking function through paradoxical and incongruent forms of expression that appear incoherent. The most prominent explanations that account for this paradoxical form of expression rely on an analysis of the breakdown of discourse. However, this paper argues that the incongruous form of expression is rooted in the reconfiguration of the social arrangements that enable Clithero and Edgar to advance socially but also places them in proximity to social crises. The contradictions of this position of social mobility are the source of the contradictions of the expression of sleepwalking. In depicting a world that makes social identity precarious, Brown offers us an explanation for how such paradoxical modes of expression are rooted in unstable resolutions of post-revolutionary society.

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"Melancholy Wildness": The Failure of Cross-Cultural Engagement in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Brown's Edgar Huntly

Alpert¹

2014

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Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly , David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Speaking in Tongues, Speaking without Tongues: Transplanted Voices in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Speaking in Tongues, Speaking without Tongues: Transplanted Voices in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Sleepwalking, Class Mobility, and the Search for the Social Origins of Populism in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly

"Melancholy Wildness": The Failure of Cross-Cultural Engagement in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Brown's Edgar Huntly

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