Description
| Product ID: | 9780872208537 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Hackett Classics |
| Title: | Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker |
| Subtitle: | With Related Texts |
| Authors: | Author: Charles Brockden Brown, Stephen Shapiro, Philip Barnard |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | In addition to the UVA text of Brown's novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. It also includes several of Brown's writings on such subjects as somnambulism and the uses of history in fiction. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-09-15 |
