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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975162803321

Autore

Brown Charles Brockden <1771-1810.>

Titolo

Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793 : first and second parts / / by Charles Brockden Brown ; edited by Sydney J. Krause and S.W. Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-61277-331-1

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (492 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KrauseSydney J (Sydney Joseph)

ReidS. W

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

Murderers

Yellow fever

Young men

Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-479).

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Arthur Mervyn, First Part""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter I ""; ""Chapter II ""; ""Chapter III ""; ""Chapter IV ""; ""Chapter V ""; ""Chapter VI ""; ""Chapter VII ""; ""Chapter VIII ""; ""Chapter IX ""; ""Chapter X ""; ""Chapter XI ""; ""Chapter XII ""; ""Chapter XIII ""; ""Chapter XIV ""; ""Chapter XV ""; ""Chapter XVI ""; ""Chapter XVII ""; ""Chapter XVIII ""; ""Chapter XIX ""; ""Chapter XX ""; ""Chapter XXI ""; ""Chapter XXII ""; ""Chapter XXIII ""; ""Arthur Mervyn, Second Part""; ""Chapter I ""; ""Chapter II ""; ""Chapter III ""; ""Chapter IV ""

""Chapter V """"Chapter VI ""; ""Chapter VII ""; ""Chapter VIII ""; ""Chapter IX ""; ""Chapter X ""; ""Chapter XI ""; ""Chapter XII ""; ""Chapter XIII ""; ""Chapter XIV ""; ""Chapter XV ""; ""Chapter XVI ""; ""Chapter XVII ""; ""Chapter XVIII ""; ""Chapter XIX ""; ""Chapter XX ""; ""Chapter XXI ""; ""Chapter XXII ""; ""Chapter XXIII ""; ""Chapter XXIV ""; ""Chapter XXV ""; ""Introduction to the Historical Essay""; ""Historical Essay by Norman S. Grabo""; ""Selected Bibliography""

Sommario/riassunto

Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication. Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much in its portrait of " right virtue, " which was Brown's primary aim, as in its realistic



descriptions of the yellow fever epidemic and the ensuing panic that swept Philadelphia in the summer of 1793. The ambiguities of Arthur Mervyn's character and the precarious nature of the revolutionary 1790s make this novel a particularly apt subject for lively discussion and future scholarship and make this revised edition an excellent classroom text.