Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

ISBN-13: 9781554813384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Charles Brockden Brown; Sian Silyn Roberts

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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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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