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Edgar Huntly By Charles Brockden Brown

Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown


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A compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken by the scenes he has witnessed, ordinary republican citizen Edgar Huntly relates the unpredictable and catastrophic consequences of his chance encounter with Clithero Edny, a mysterious Irish immigrant whose unfortunate but violent history catches up with him.

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Edgar Huntly: or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown

Edgar Huntly is a compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken by the scenes he has witnessed, ordinary republican citizen Edgar Huntly relates the unpredictable and catastrophic consequences of his chance encounter with Clithero Edny, a mysterious Irish immigrant whose unfortunate but violent history catches up with him in the New World. Huntly's growing obsession with Clithero plunges both men into physical and mental danger, unsettling the colonial territories of the Delaware basin and the cognitive territory of Huntly's own mind. Brockden Brown's artful sensationalism transplants the European form of the gothic romance to the new United States, yielding one of the most exciting, metaphysically sophisticated, and historically self-aware novels in early American literary culture.

This Broadview Edition includes a rich selection of historical materials on the gothic and sublime, sleepwalking, captivity narratives, and early American literary nationalism.

Edgar Huntly Reviews

Sian Silyn Roberts has done readers, students, and scholars a tremendous service in assembling this critical edition of Edgar Huntly. An authoritative scholarly edition of the text of the novel is placed among a remarkable range of contemporary extracts that help readers understand the text in the contexts of late-eighteenth-century aesthetic and moral philosophy, transatlantic literary culture and the gothic boom, and other topics. Roberts also adds an elegant critical introduction, thus making her own important contribution to the critical scholarship. This new edition pulls Brown's fascinating and difficult novel into a new set of critical and theoretical conversations that reflect early American literary studies today; it will surely make this canonical, yet somewhat under-studied early American novel accessible to new generations of readers. - Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester

Sian Silyn Roberts has raised the bar considerably in her edition of Charles Brockden Brown's notoriously difficult Edgar Huntly. In taking up Brown's 'dare' to readers, Roberts provides the most comprehensive toolbox for both new and returning students, and for those of us who have sustained the discomfiting realm of Brown's world for years. The excellent introduction demonstrates Brown's broad-ranging investments and influences, from the regional to the transatlantic, native American to radical Irishman, US literary nationalism to the extensive literary archives his work engages with. Roberts illuminates the connections between the 1790s and today, and as a result, invites readers to imagine historical trajectories as Brown's work demands. This is important and timely-I can't wait to use it in my classes. - Gretchen Woertendyke, University of South Carolina

About Charles Brockden Brown

Sian Silyn Roberts is Associate Professor at Queens College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charles Brockden Brown: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Appendix A: Literary Nationalism and the Romance
  1. Charles Brockden Brown, The Difference Between History and Romance, Monthly Magazine and American Review (April 1800)
  2. From Sir Walter Scott, Essay on Romance (1823)
  3. From Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Appendix B: Theories of the Gothic and the Sublime
  1. From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful(1757)
  2. From Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764)
  3. From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc (1817)
  4. From Charles Brockden Brown, Terrific Novels, Literary Magazine and American Register (April 1805)
  5. Charles Brockden Brown (?), A Receipt for a Modern Romance, Weekly Magazine (June 1798)
Appendix C: Sleepwalking
  1. From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
  2. From Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life (1794-96)
  3. Charles Brockden Brown, Somnambulism. A Fragment, Literary Magazine and American Register (May 1805)
Appendix D: The Moral Senses
  1. From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
  2. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind (1755)
  3. From Benjamin Rush, An Inquiry into the Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty (1786)
Appendix E: Captivity and Indian Relations
  1. A True Narrative of the Sufferings of Mary Kinnan (1794)
  2. From Minutes of conferences, held with the Indians, at Easton, in the months of July and November, 1756 (1757)
  3. From Benjamin Franklin, A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians (1764)
Appendix F: Irish Radicalism and Conspiracy
  1. From Peter Porcupine [William Cobbett], Detection of a conspiracy, formed by the United Irishmen (1798)

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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CIN1554813387G
9781554813384
1554813387
Edgar Huntly: or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
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Broadview Press Ltd
20180530
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