Three Gothic Novels : Wieland Or, the Transformation : Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 : Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Penguin USA, October 1998. Hardcover. Haunted, dreamlike scenes define the fictional world of Charles Brockden Brown, America's first professional novelist. Published in the final years of the 18th century, Brown's startlingly prophetic novels are a virtual resume of themes that would constantly recur in American literature: madness and murder, suicide..... More