Wieland or the Transformation: An American Tale

Religious fanaticism is a theme that runs through American history and in some ways through American literature. We have a dichotomous relationship with religion and madness, which like dreaming often brings disparate elements together, as unlikely as they may appear in the bright daylight of reason and sanity. And Wieland does this through the epistolary of the narrators. Clara is the main narrator, and she reveals so much madness, doubt, distinctly misled impressions, and not really knowi...