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Entries: Apocalyptic - "American fiction is said to have an apocalyptic tradition, which includes the work of Charles Brockden Brown..." Federalist Age - "The novel--first practiced in America in 1789--saw good work by Charles Brockden Brown..." Gothic Novel - "In America, the type was cultivated early by Charles Brockden Brown." Novel - "Charles Brockden Brown was the first important American novelist. Brown, who wrote chiefly in the Gothic manner, was the author of four readable tales: Wieland (1798), Arthur Mervyn (1799), Ormond (1799), and Edgar Huntly (1799)." Revolutionary and Early National Period (American) - "Charles Brockden Brown, the first American novelist of marked ability, flourished briefly between 1798 and 1801; his Wieland (1798) was a distinguished piece of American Gothic."