| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.1

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Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic. By Peter Kafer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xxi, 249p. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95.)

Peter Kafer's study is a valuable addition to Charles Brockden Brown scholarship insofar as it brings to light a wealth of new biographical and historical information concerning Brown's family, the family's relations with the Philadelphia Quaker community, and Brown's relations with his closest cultural and intellectual fellow travelers. Some of Kafer's work was published in articles, but the more complete presentation in book form makes this necessary reading for anyone working on Brown. Kafer's accounts of Brown's family history, his father's banishment and vicissitudes as a businessman, and the identification of possible background for the "Henrietta" letters and aspects of Brown's novels all supplement and extend previous biographical scholarship in valuable ways that will undoubtedly inform future Brown scholarship.

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