| Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Contributor(s): Brown, Charles Brockden (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603129049 ISBN-13: 9781603129046 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.42 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Dr. Stevens finds a young man sitting alone in Phildelphia, he takes pity on him and invites him into his home. The young man's name is Arthur Mervyn and he is suffering from yellow fever, an illness that has swept through the city. In Dr. Stevens' care, Arthur becomes well again. Arthur is a pleasant man and they spend many hours discussing the future. However, when Mr. Whortley visits Dr. Stevens and recognizes Arthur, the serene life that was so hoped for by Arthur is brought into turmoil. For Arthur's past is not one of innocence, but one involving swindlers and lost monies. And Dr. Stevens must decide if Arthur deserves another chance at improving a wretched life. Charles Brockden Brown is considered the man who brought Gothic literature to America. Before him, Gothic novels were set in European ruined castles and moors. Brown brought them to the towns and villages of America, but retained the Gothic feel that people of the time enjoyed so much. "Arthur Mervyn" was one of his most popular novels. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Charles Brockden: - "Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period. He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution." |