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Title:Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 : With Related Texts
Author:Charles Brockden Brown; Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Barnard & Stephen Shapiro
ISBN:0872209210 : 9780872209213
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:442
Weight: .634 Kg.
Published:Hackett Publishing - April 2008
List Price: 12.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries


An influential classic of American gothic and urban literature, Charles Brockden Brown's "Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793" (1799-1800) 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 edition of Brown's widely-read novel offers selections from key contemporary texts -- including Richard Allen and Absalom Jones' Narrative (1794) defending the city's Free Black community, Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768), 1790s abolitionist tracts by members of Brown's circle, and popular poetry on the slave trade and imperial commerce -- as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.