Arthur Mervyn : Revised Edition
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0873387384
ISBN-13
9780873387385
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Imprint
Kent State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 24th, 2002
Print length
496 Pages
Weight
700 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.50 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysEssaysClassic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was America's first novelist - the earliest citizen of the young nation to support himself by ""the profession of literature"". This, his third published novel, provides realistic descriptions of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793.
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.
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