caa a22 4500 388048433 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006293 doi S0361233300006293 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006293 Vickers Anita Social Corruption and the Subversion of the American Success Story in Arthur Mervyn [Elektronische Daten] [Anita Vickers] Because both parts of Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799-1800) were clearly not composed under the same creative impetus as his other novels were (critics conjecture that the novel was written in three segments within a two-year span), the novel as a whole evinces the author's propensity to improvise more than any of his other works do (Ringe, 49). Early critics, notably R. W. B. Lewis (The American Adam) and David Lee Clark (Pioneer Voice in America), choose to ignore and/or gloss over the troublesome second part. Later criticism, however, deals with both part 1 and part 2. Kenneth Bernard, for one, concisely identifies one of the novel's themes as the correlation between innocence and experience, the first part dealing with Mervyn's innocence and inexperience, and the second dealing with his experience and his cognizance because of that experience (441). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 129-145 0361-2333 23<129 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006293 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006293 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Vickers Anita NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 129-145 0361-2333 23<129 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge