Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Monthly Magazine and Other Writings, 1789-1800

The second volume in the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown assembles for the first time his major periodical writings from the period when he was also producing his famous novels.

All the pieces he contributed to The Columbian Magazine and The Weekly Magazine are joined by an expansive collection of stories and essays from The Monthly Magazine, which he also edited between 1799 and 1800. Texts offering major insights into Brown’s ideas about the human imagination, American society, and the art of fiction such as ＂The Rhapsodist,＂ ＂The Man at Home,＂ and ＂The Difference Between History and Romance,＂ are complemented by dozens of other works, many never before attributed to him, covering topics ranging from the theatre and classical literature to racial identity and geographical knowledge. Each edited text provides detailed information concerning publication history and provenance, along with extensive scholarly annotation. The editors of the volume include two additional essays: ＂A Historical Essay,＂ offering detailed contextualization of the post-Revolutionary cultural milieu from which Brown’s magazine writing emerged, and ＂A Textual Essay,＂ offering new bibliographical information about the texts and explains editorial protocols for the volume.

Matthew Pethers is Associate Professor of American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor of The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art and The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing.

Leonard von Morzé is Associate Professor of English and Interim Dean of the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the editor of Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World.

Hilary Emmett is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where she specialises in transnational literary studies. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook to Charles Brockden Brown and The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies.