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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). Poems, volume 7 of the series, is the first
comprehensive collection of the poetry of Charles Brockden Brown
(1771– 1810), one of the earliest professional writers in U.S.
history. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has
never before been collected, and many of the works included in this
book appear in print for the first time in 200 years. The Committee
on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association has
awarded the volume a seal of certification as an MLA Approved
Scholarly Edition. Each edited text has a detailed textual note
providing publication history, provenance, and information on
attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotations. A
historical introduction locates the poems in Brown’s biography,
the print culture of the Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the
literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while
a textual essay provides full bibliographical information on the
sources for all copy-texts, as well as an extensive description of
the editorial protocols. The volume therefore promises to reshape
our understanding of professional literary writing in the period
after the American Revolution.
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).
Political Pamphlets, volume 4 of the series, brings together, for
the first time, the three political pamphlets and related writings
of Charles Brockden Brown. While Brown is well known as a novelist
and editor, his pamphlets addressing the Louisiana Question and
Jefferson's Embargo are here presented and contextualized in terms
of the period's geopolitical developments and the newspaper
polemics that were their immediate context. Each edited text
provides detailed information concerning publication history,
provenance, and attribution, along with extensive scholarly
annotation. A Historical Essay locates the pamphlets in the wider
contexts of Brown's literary career, the print culture of the
Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the literary history of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while a Textual Essay provides
full bibliographical information on the sources for all copy-texts,
as well as extensive description of the editorial protocols. The
volume substantially reshapes our understanding of Brown's corpus
and development, and provides insights into the relations of
literary, journalistic, and political writing during the Jefferson
and Madison administrations. The Committee on Scholarly Editions of
the Modern Language Association has awarded the volume a seal of
certification as an MLA Approved Scholarly Edition.
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; and
a 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.
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
American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810, volume 6 of the
series, assembles and presents for the first time Charles Brockden
Brown's writing from the final years of his life, including from
his magisterial periodical project, the American Register. In this
semi-annual periodical, Brown narrates the tumultuous political
events of the United States and Europe amidst the Napoleonic Wars.
In addition to providing the complete text of the "Prefaces" and
"Annals" from the five volumes of the American Register, this
volume also includes other late periodical writing by Brown and his
prospectus for the unpublished "A System of General Geography."
Each edited text provides detailed information concerning
publication history, provenance, and attribution, along with
extensive scholarly annotation. A Historical Essay provides
detailed contextualization of the geopolitical affairs in which
Brown's writing is steeped. A Textual Essay offers full
bibliographical information and context for each edited text and
explains editorial protocols for the volume.
Similar to the "digital revolution" of the last century, the
colonial and early national periods were a time of improved print
technologies, exploding information, faster communications, and a
fundamental reinventing of publishing and media processes. Between
the early 1700s, when periodical publications struggled, and the
late 1790s, when print media surged ahead, print culture was
radically transformed by a liberal market economy, innovative
printing and papermaking techniques, improved distribution
processes, and higher literacy rates, meaning that information,
particularly in the form of newspapers and magazines, was available
more quickly and widely to people than ever before. These changes
generated new literary genres and new relationships between authors
and their audiences. The study of periodical literature and print
culture in the eighteenth century has provided a more intimate view
into the lives and tastes of early Americans, as well as enabled
researchers to further investigate a plethora of subjects and
discourses having to do with the Atlantic world and the formation
of an American republic. Periodical Literature in
Eighteenth-Century America is a collection of essays that delves
into many of these unique magazines and newspapers and their
intersections as print media, as well as into what these
publications reveal about the cultural, ideological, and literary
issues of the period; the resulting research is interdisciplinary,
combining the fields of history, literature, and cultural studies.
The essays explore many evolving issues in an emerging America:
scientific inquiry, race, ethnicity, gender, and religious belief
all found voice in various early periodicals. The differences
between the pre- and post-Revolutionary periodicals and
performativity are discussed, as are vital immigration, class, and
settlement issues. Political topics, such as the emergence of
democratic institutions and dissent, the formation of early
parties, and the development of regional, national, and
transnational cultural identities are also covered. Using digital
databases and recent poststructural and cultural theories, this
book returns us to the periodicals archive and regenerates the
ideological and discursive landscape of early American literature
in provocative ways; it will be of value to anyone interested in
the crosscurrents of early American history, book history, and
cultural studies. Mark L. Kamrath is associate professor of English
at the University of Central Florida. Sharon M. Harris is Lorraine
Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.
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