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Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist (1803–1805) is a story fragment written by Charles Brockden Brown and published over a period of two years in monthly installments of Brown's Literary Magazine.[citation needed] Brown never completed his story, and it has always remained unfinished, and unresolved.[1] Carwin is technically the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland.[2] Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, or ventriloquist, talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate his own voice to sound like any person he wants.
- ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. Introduction. Wieland; or the Transformation: Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: a Fragment. By Charles Brockden Brown. 1926. New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1958. ix-xlvi. Print.
- ^ Elliott, Emory. Introduction. Wieland; or The Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. By Charles Brockden Brown. 1994. Oxford: University Press, 2009. vii-xxx. Print.