{"product_id":"charles-brockden-brown-three-gothic-novels-loa-103-wieland-arthur-mervyn-edgar-huntly-hardcover","title":"Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels (Loa #103): Wieland \/ Arthur Mervyn \/ Edgar Huntly - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Brockden Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSydney J. Krause\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elderly mystic dies of spontaneous combustion in a secret temple. A young man is haunted by voices instructing him to slaughter his wife and children. A sleepwalker undergoes a series of violent adventures in the wilderness. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese haunted, dreamlike scenes define the fictional world of Charles Brockden Brown, America's first professional novelist. Published in the final years of the eighteenth century, Brown's startlingly prophetic novels are a virtual résumé of themes that would constantly recur in American literature: madness and murder, suicide and religious obsession, the seduction of innocence and the dangers of wilderness and settlement alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThree Gothic Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, The Library of America collects the most significant of Brown's works. \u003ci\u003eWieland; or The Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (1798), his novel of a religious fanatic preyed upon by a sinister ventriloquist, is often considered his masterpiece. A relentlessly dark exploration of guilt, deception, and compulsion, it creates a sustained mood of irrational terror in the midst of the Pennsylvania countryside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793\u003c\/i\u003e (1799), Brown draws on his own experience to create indelible scenes of Philadelphia devastated by a yellow fever epidemic, while telling the story of a young man caught in the snares of a professional swindler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker\u003c\/i\u003e (1799) fuses traditional Gothic themes with motifs drawn from the American wilderness, in a series of eerily unreal adventures that test the limits of the protagonist's self-knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll three novels reveal Brown as the pioneer of a major vein of American writing, a novelist whose literary heirs include Poe, Hawthorne, Faulkner, and the whole tradition of horror and noir from Cornell Woolrich to Stephen King. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume also includes a newly researched chronology of Brown's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Brockden Brown \u003c\/b\u003e(1771-1810) was the early republic's most ambitious and accomplished literary figure, writing prolifically in many genres. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSydney J. Krause, volume editor, is professor emeritus of English at Kent State University, and general editor of the Kent State University Bicentennial Edition of the multi-volume \u003ci\u003eNovels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 925\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.13 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47498656579805,"sku":"9781883011574","price":46.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/xqHXhlswBe9781883011574.webp?v=1771993201","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/charles-brockden-brown-three-gothic-novels-loa-103-wieland-arthur-mervyn-edgar-huntly-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}