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

Author: Brown, Charles Brockden

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Published on 15 September 2006 by Hackett Publishing Co, Inc in the United States as part of 'the Hackett Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 320 pages, Illustrations
197 x 134 x 7 | 464g

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.