Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (eBook)
972 Seiten
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-445-8 (ISBN)
Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings ofCharles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown's non-novelistic writingsletters, political pamphlets, fiction, periodical writings, historical writings, and poetryin a seven-volume scholarly edition. The edition's volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, volume 1 of the series, presents, for the first time, Brown's complete extant correspondence along with three early epistolary fiction fragments. Brown's 179 extant letters provide essential context for reading his other works and a wealth of information about his life, family, associates, and the wider cultural life of the revolutionary period and Early Republic. The letters document the interactions of Brown's intellectual and literary circles in Philadelphia and during his New York years, when his publishing career began in earnest. The correspondence additionally includes exchanges with notables including Thomas Jefferson and Albert Gallatin. The volumes three epistolary fragments are the earliest examples of Brown's fiction and are transcribed here for the first time in complete and definitive texts. The volume's historical texts are fully annotated and accompanied by Historical and Textual Essays, as well as other appended materials, including the most complete and accurate information available concerning Brown's correspondents and family history. The scholarly work informing this volume establishes significant new findings concerning Brown, his family and friends, and the circumstances of his development as a major literary figure of the revolutionary Atlantic world.
Philip Barnard is professor of English at the University of Kansas. Elizabeth Hewitt is associate professor of English at The Ohio State University. Mark L. Kamrath is professor of English at the University of Central Florida.
ContentsAcknowledgments I. The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown (1788-1809) II. Early Epistolary Writings A. Henrietta letters (1790 / 1792) B. Godolphin and Ellendale fragments.1. Godolphin Fragment (1793) 2. Ellendale Fragment (1793) Illustrations Historical Essay Textual Essay Census of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown Description of Provenance Biographies of Correspondents Genealogy of the Brown and Linn Families Bibliography and Works Cited Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.4.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown |
Zusatzinfo | 10 Illustrations including: - 10 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | American Literature • eighteenth-century literature • Eighteenth-Cenutry Literature • Gothic fiction • Literary Studies |
ISBN-10 | 1-61148-445-6 / 1611484456 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61148-445-8 / 9781611484458 |
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