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Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new United States, Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland (1798) is the first gothic novel in America and a cornerstone of the American literary canon. Also reprinted is Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Brown's sequel to Wieland. Explanatory annotations are provided throughout this Norton Critical Edition. Inspirations for Brown's work are presented in "Sources and Contexts". "Criticism" includes contemporary responses to the novel along with fourteen modern critical approaches.