A Spanish (unknown) afterlife of Sebastian of Portugal and his prodigious progeny

For most, Wieland is the best-known work penned by Charles Brockden Brown and one of the key oeuvres to understand the development of both the literature of the early republic and the American Gothic. Far from this, the first European translations of this romance are much less studied nowadays. The first two volumes of the first Spanish translation (1818) follow the original version of Wieland with some minor changes. The real innovations come on the third and fourth volumes. The third one is an account of Carvino (Carwin) and his fictional biography. The object of this article will be the fourth volume, in which Carvino gathers all the Native American leaders in order to start a revolution against the British colonists, having him being crowned King of America. The tensions and fights between colonial powers and Native subjects is one of the key elements of this part of the novel, making it an outstanding fresco of the foreign–Native relations prior to the establishment of the United States.