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Arthur Mervyn
Charles Brockden Brown
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Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife the story of his life, thereby gaining the doctor’s confidence and good will. However, others familiar with Arthur tell another tale, and the doctor’s as well as the reader’s confidence in Arthur is shaken. Brown, who himself contracted Yellow Fever during an outbreak in New York City, vividly describes the horrors of the disease and its effects on an early American city.
Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife the story of his life, thereby gaining the doctor’s confidence and good will. However, others familiar with Arthur tell another tale, and the doctor’s as well as the reader’s confidence in Arthur is shaken. Brown, who himself contracted Yellow Fever during an outbreak in New York City, vividly describes the horrors of the disease and its effects on an early American city.
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Set in 1790's Philadelphia and Baltimore and written in an antique, stately and flowery style, this novel surprised me by being readable, interesting and even touching. Was the Great American Novel already written before the 19th century ever turned?
Whether you believe him or not, Arthur Mervyn is interesting, though circuitous journey. Heavy CBB.
I'm a big fan of Charles Brockden Brown even if his books can sometimes be a tough slog (must-read-twice curlicues of sentences, total implausibility on every level [by today's standards, anyway], etc.). I really enjoy reading all the crazy/horrible/salacious combinations of infanticide/rape/religio
The story is told in a beautiful prose while unfolding from the perspectives of several narrators which by creating a network, make it very catchy... but then it starts off with a number of themes -trade networks in the Caribbean, emergence of a new bourgeoisie, malignance of the mercantile class -
2019-02 – Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown (Author) 1799. 374 Pages.
This book is on the curriculum for The Rosenbach Library and Museum’s “Philadelphia Gothic” series. I had read one of the books from the list last year (The Quaker City: or The Monks of Monk Hall) a
A young man leaves home to make his fortune during an epidemic of 1793, only to discover that humanity is less than noble.
Hm...a difficult one to review. The beginning was slow drudgery. I put the book down for a while, then picked it up again to give it another chance. Things picked up when we star
The only way to ready Arthur Mervyn.