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Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

With Related Texts

Charles Brockden Brown

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 05/2024
Pages: 488
Print ISBN: 9781600000000
eBook ISBN: 9781603845083

DESCRIPTION

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.

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