Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings ofCharles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fiction, periodical writings, historical writings, and poetry—in a seven-volume scholarly edition.

Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, volume 1 of the series, presents, for the first time, Brown’s complete extant correspondence along with three early epistolary fiction fragments. Brown’s 179 extant letters provide essential context for reading his other works, and a wealth of information about his life, family, associates, and the wider cultural life of the revolutionary period and Early Republic. The letters document the interactions of Brown’s intellectual and literary circles in Philadelphia and during his New York years, when his publishing career began in earnest. The correspondence additionally includes exchanges with notables including Thomas Jefferson and Albert Gallatin. The volume's three epistolary fragments are the earliest examples of Brown’s fiction and are transcribed here for the first time in complete and definitive texts.

The volume’s historical texts are fully annotated and accompanied by Historical and Textual Essays, as well as other appended materials, including the most complete and accurate information available concerning Brown’s correspondents and family history. The scholarly work informing this volume establishes significant new findings concerning Brown, his family and friends, and the circumstances of his development as a major literary figure of the revolutionary Atlantic world.

This edition's volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and bear the seal of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).

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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings ofCharles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fiction, periodical writings, historical writings, and poetry—in a seven-volume scholarly edition.

Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, volume 1 of the series, presents, for the first time, Brown’s complete extant correspondence along with three early epistolary fiction fragments. Brown’s 179 extant letters provide essential context for reading his other works, and a wealth of information about his life, family, associates, and the wider cultural life of the revolutionary period and Early Republic. The letters document the interactions of Brown’s intellectual and literary circles in Philadelphia and during his New York years, when his publishing career began in earnest. The correspondence additionally includes exchanges with notables including Thomas Jefferson and Albert Gallatin. The volume's three epistolary fragments are the earliest examples of Brown’s fiction and are transcribed here for the first time in complete and definitive texts.

The volume’s historical texts are fully annotated and accompanied by Historical and Textual Essays, as well as other appended materials, including the most complete and accurate information available concerning Brown’s correspondents and family history. The scholarly work informing this volume establishes significant new findings concerning Brown, his family and friends, and the circumstances of his development as a major literary figure of the revolutionary Atlantic world.

This edition's volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and bear the seal of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).

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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings

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Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings ofCharles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fiction, periodical writings, historical writings, and poetry—in a seven-volume scholarly edition.

Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, volume 1 of the series, presents, for the first time, Brown’s complete extant correspondence along with three early epistolary fiction fragments. Brown’s 179 extant letters provide essential context for reading his other works, and a wealth of information about his life, family, associates, and the wider cultural life of the revolutionary period and Early Republic. The letters document the interactions of Brown’s intellectual and literary circles in Philadelphia and during his New York years, when his publishing career began in earnest. The correspondence additionally includes exchanges with notables including Thomas Jefferson and Albert Gallatin. The volume's three epistolary fragments are the earliest examples of Brown’s fiction and are transcribed here for the first time in complete and definitive texts.

The volume’s historical texts are fully annotated and accompanied by Historical and Textual Essays, as well as other appended materials, including the most complete and accurate information available concerning Brown’s correspondents and family history. The scholarly work informing this volume establishes significant new findings concerning Brown, his family and friends, and the circumstances of his development as a major literary figure of the revolutionary Atlantic world.

This edition's volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and bear the seal of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611484458
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 04/18/2013
Series: Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 972
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Philip Barnard is professor of English at the University of Kansas.
Elizabeth Hewitt is associate professor of English at The Ohio State University.
Mark L. Kamrath is professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
I. The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown (1788-1809)
II. Early Epistolary Writings
A. Henrietta letters (1790 / 1792)
B. Godolphin and Ellendale fragments.
1. Godolphin Fragment (1793)
2. Ellendale Fragment (1793)
Illustrations
Historical Essay
Textual Essay
Census of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown
Description of Provenance
Biographies of Correspondents
Genealogy of the Brown and Linn Families
Bibliography and Works Cited
Index
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