Počátky paranormálního modu v americké fantastické literatuře: Charles Brockden Brown
The beginnings of the paranormal mode in the American fantastic literature: Charles Brockden Brown

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that the beginning of the paranormal mode in English and American literature should be traced back to Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic novel Wieland (1798). The concept of the paranormal mode is based on Nancy H. Traill's scale of modes of the fantastic. While various fantastic phenomena feature in Wieland as well as in other Brown's novels, it is the motif of spontaneous combustion and a prophetic dream which provide the best evidence for the employment of the paranormal mode. The last part of the paper explicates the thematic employment of the paranormal mode and fantastic elements in Wieland.

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