Known as the “father of the American novel”, the late eighteenth century author Charles Brockden Brown wrote Gothic romances in American settings, paving the way for the masterpieces of Poe and Hawthorne. Brown’s writings exploit horror and terror, while reflecting a thoughtful liberalism. Generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper, Brown also wrote short stories, essays and philosophical dialogues, establishing his reputation as a crucial literary figure of the French Revolution era. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Brown’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Brown’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 7 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Memoirs of Stephen Calvert’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories and fragments available in no other collection * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Brown’s pioneering work on women’s rights, ‘Alcuin’, including the posthumous Part III, never before offered in digital print * Many essays from Brown’s periodical publications * Includes Brown’s letters – explore the author’s personal correspondence * Features Dunlap’s seminal biography, only available in this eBook – discover Brown’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Wieland (1798) Ormond (1799) Arthur Mervyn (1799) Edgar Huntly (1799) Memoirs of Stephen Calvert (1799) Clara Howard (1801) Jane Talbot (1801) The Shorter Fiction Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805) Uncollected Short Stories The Non-Fiction Alcuin (1798) Uncollected Essays The Biography and Letters The Life of Charles Brockden Brown by William Dunlap Letters from Charles Brockden Brown to His Friends Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE). The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, volume 3 of the series, presents a selection of Brown’s published writings between 1801 and 1807. The majority of the volume is devoted to texts that appeared in The Literary Magazine, and American Register, which Brown edited from October 1803 to December 1807, through fifty-one issues. The volume also includes a number of additional non-fiction pieces that Brown wrote during this period: a significant review essay in the 1801 American Review, and Literary Journal; a series of articles in the 1802 Port Folio; anda biographical sketch of Brown’s late brother-in-law, John Blair Linn, which was published with Linn’s book-length poem Valerian in 1805. The majority of these texts have not been in print since the early nineteenth century, and never have they been accorded this level of textual and editorial scrutiny.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown wasbest known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel.

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