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Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

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Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
March 15th, 2008
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Philip Barnard
  • Edited by Stephen Shapiro
Pages
488
ISBN-13
9780872209213
Product ID
2460724

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