Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: With Related Texts

ISBN-13: 9780872208537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 269 str.

Charles Brockden Brown

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In addition to the definitive UVA text of Brown's seminal novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. Related texts include selections from William Godwin's "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793), Erasmus Darwin's "Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life" (1794), Benjamin Franklin's A Narrative of the Late Massacres (1764), and Thomas Barton's The Conduct of the Paxton-Men (1764), as well excerpts from Brown's own essays on somnambulism and the uses of history in fiction.