It recounts the terrifying story of how Theodore Wieland is driven to madness and murder by a malign ventriloquist called Carwin.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

A seminal work both of American literature and the literature of the weird. First published in 1798, Wieland distinguishes the true beginning of Brockden's career as a writer. Wieland is the first - and most famous - American Gothic novel.

Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown.

Wieland; or The Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown. Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown.

Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new America, Brown's novel has for more than two centuries kept readers debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary politics as the story's moral chaos ...