CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
With Related Texts
Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Barnard & Stephen Shapiro
"Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the United States"
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.
"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
Philip Barnard is Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor in English, University of Kansas.
Stephen Shapiro is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.
March 2008 488 pp.
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Cloth: $55.00
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Paper: $19.95
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Examination: $4.00
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CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
With Related Texts
Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro
In addition to the definitive UVA text of Brown’s seminal novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. Related texts include selections from William Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794), Benjamin Franklin’s “A Narrative of the Late Massacres” (1764), and Thomas Barton’s “The Conduct of the Paxton-Men” (1764), as well excerpts from Brown’s own essays on somnambulism and the uses of history in fiction.
“This is now the edition of choice for those of us who teach Brown’s fascinating Edgar Huntly. Barnard and Shapiro explore the relevant historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds in their illuminating Introduction; they skillfully annotate the text; they provide useful and up-to-date bibliographies; and they append a number of revealing primary texts for further cultural contextualization. This edition will help to stimulate new thinking about race, empire, and sexuality in Brown’s prescient novel of the American frontier.”
—Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland
Philip Barnard is Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas.
Stephen Shapiro is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.
Sept. 2006 320 pp.ISBN-10/ISBN-13
Cloth: $37.95
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Paper: $12.95
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Examination: $3.00
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SCOTT J. HAMMOND, KEVIN R. HARDWICK, & HOWARD L. LUBERT
Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, Volume I
Origins through the Civil War
Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, & Howard L. Lubert
Volume 1 of a 2-volume set.
North American rights only.
From James I’s “Address Before Parliament” (1610) to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s “Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee” (2005), this two-volume set offers an unparalleled selection of key texts from the history of American political and constitutional thought.
“This collection surpasses anything else I have seen in its representation of the complexity, breadth, and sheer intellectual splendor of United States political thinking. I have trouble imagining how the editors could improve on their skillful blending of vital texts and neglected gems; of legal documents and literary treasures; of poems, speeches, sermons, and jeremiads. The European and American roots of U.S. constitutional thinking are displayed in a fashion that reflects the best recent scholarship while at the same time the spokesmen from Indian nations are given the broad and full presence they deserve. The torturous intersection of race and politics is explored in well-chosen texts by Black, Chicano, and Indian writers and through a host of legal documents and decisions. Conservative and progressive voices, labor activists and libertarians, analytical political philosophers, and Sunday editorialists; they all find their place within the editors’ lucid arrangement. This will serve as a superb textbook for classes on United States political theory, for classes on constitutional history, and for overviews of the struggle for democracy in America. It is a great gathering of evidence for those who see the United States as having a political theory tradition of unique richness, range, and relevance.”
—Brian Walker, UCLA
“This is easily the most comprehensive, thoughtful, and updated collection of primary source readings in American political theory. It covers material typically excluded in existing edited volumes, particularly source documents for Native Americans, women, and African-Americans. Not only is the founding period well represented, but so too are the most recent expressions of American thought and politics.”
—Jim Savage, University of Virginia
Scott J. Hammond is Professor, and Howard L. Lubert Associate Professor, of Political Science, James Madison University. Kevin R. Hardwick is Associate Professor of History, James Madison University.
March 2007 1,232 pp.
Cloth: $69.00
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Paper: $36.00
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March 18, 2008