Charles Brockden Brown

Edgar Huntly (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edgar Huntly is a young man who lives on a farm on the outskirts of Philadelphia with his sisters and uncle. Following the mysterious murder of his friend Waldegrave, Huntly begins an investigation that leads him on a harrowing journey involving sleepwalking, a death in Ireland, and the local Lenni Lenape tribe. Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is a terrifying Gothic novel and an important early work of American fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273655
• Artikelnr.: 60883450

Autorenporträt

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was an American novelist and historian. Born into a family of Quakers in Philadelphia, Brown studied as a lawyer before embarking on a literary career. Alongside his work as a successful author of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, Brown was a well-regarded editor and public intellectual. He was heavily influenced by British radicals of the French Revolutionary period, including Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and became an important figure both in the developing American literary scene and for such writers as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. His style exhibits a profound understanding of Gothic fiction and radical democratic politics, and his works incorporate elements of sentimental fiction, the captivity narrative, and epistolary form in their composition. Although he was far from the only writer working in early America, his critical acclaim and popular success certainly make him one of the most important. Brown's brief but productive career earned the admiration of Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, all of whom he inspired and influenced.