Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown

Name: Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 By Charles Brockden Brown
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Memorialises the epic Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and connects it to the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This work offers selections from key contemporary texts.

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Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: With Related Texts by Charles Brockden Brown

Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery.

This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Reviews

This new edition of Arthur Mervyn far exceeds any previous version of this remarkable American novel. Through exhaustive archival research, the editors have produced a reliable text constructed within the intellectual, cultural, political, and religious contexts of a society informing Brown's efforts to capture and preserve the formation of the early republic for generations of readers and cultural historians. This vital text is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the United States.

--Emory Elliott, University Professor, University of California-Riverside

About Charles Brockden Brown

Philip Barnard is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas.

Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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NPB9780872209220

ISBN 13

9780872209220

ISBN 10

0872209229

Title

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: With Related Texts by Charles Brockden Brown

Author

Charles Brockden Brown

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Year published

2008-03-15

Number of pages

488

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