Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a SleepWalker Charles Brockden Brown 9781482730104 Books
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One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.
Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a SleepWalker Charles Brockden Brown 9781482730104 Books
A thrilling gothic mystery that follows Edgar Huntly on his journey to find out who killed his friend Waldegrave. He sees a sleepwalker and concludes he might be the murderer and demands that he confess, and he does confess but not to the murder of Waldegrave, and begins telling of his life in Ireland. Huntly himself also sleepwalks and finds himself on an adventure involving a panther and Indians. Brown uses sleepwalking to drive the story as well as the theme of morality and truth.Product details
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Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a SleepWalker Charles Brockden Brown 9781482730104 Books Reviews
I know it's historical, but this book is so off the walls it's just kind of painful to read. The author is all over the place and his story is everywhere and more than a dozen times I found myself re-reading parts because I missed some key detail. Then it didn't even matter. Ugh, You're a punk Charles Brockden Brown!
Arrived as described and fast delivery.
Book came in excellent condition but was one of the worst books I have ever read.
Yes, the story is great, but this particular edition is a print-on-demand book loaded with spelling errors. By all means read this story, but order an edition from an established and reliable publisher.
Often ranked as "the first significant American novelist"-this is how Norman Grabo characterizes him in the Introduction to this volume-Charles Brockden Brown was an ambitious and inventive teller of tales, although an awkward literary craftsman. Brown was only in his twenties when he published this novel in 1799, but it was already his fourth book. Edgar Huntly, which takes place in rural Pennsylvania in 1787 recounts the strange adventures of a young man who sets out to discover the person responsible for killing his best friend, Waldegrave, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. His investigations put him on the track of Clithero, an Irish servant employed in his uncle's household, but one thing leads to another and Edgar finds himself having to fight Indians and face the perils of the wilderness in order to make his way back home. Most of the story is told by Edgar himself in a long letter-some twenty-seven chapters long-that he is in the process of writing to his intended, Waldegrave's sister, Mary.
Edgar Huntly belongs to the genre of romance, the much older but somewhat less respectable sibling of the novel of social realism that had come into vogue in the eighteenth century. The romance frequently has an exotic setting, and features incidents that stretch the limits of artistic plausibility, where it does not take a plunge into fantasy, as it does in Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk or Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer. Nevertheless, the genre enjoyed great popularity here down to the time of the Civil War, and Brown shows himself well acquainted with its conventions. He not only throws in a whole series of hair-raising encounters that pit the inexperienced Edgar with natural hazards, predatory wild animals, and marauding Delawares, but supplies a convoluted plot line that he further complicates with stories-within-the main story told by subordinate characters. Even for a romance, Edgar Huntly has an unusually tangled narrative web. It's hardly surprising the neophyte author himself sometimes has difficulty keeping track of the strands.
The reader making the acquaintance of Brown for the first time will not get any help from the note on the back cover supplied by Penguin, according to which "Edgar Huntly is the story of a young man who sleepwalks each night, a threat to himself and others, unable to control his baser passions....One of America's first Gothic novels...." I wonder whether the person responsible for these inane comments ever bothered to open the book. In the first place, Edgar Huntly is no Gothic novel. As E.F. Bleiler pointed out, it takes a castle to make a Gothic novel. But Brown explicitly distances himself from the suspicion of Gothicism in the remarkable address "To the Public" prefaced to the book, in which he prides himself on having found his materials in his native country and rejoices in not having fallen back on "Gothic castles and chimeras" in composing his work. But the statement about Edgar is not just inaccurate-it is blatantly incorrect. Edgar has at the most two sleepwalking episodes, one of which serves to initiate the most remarkable series of events in the novel, when he awakes to find himself mysteriously transported to a cave in the middle of the night. And nothing Edgar relates suggests he has a history of somnambulism in his past-nor that he is "unable to control his baser passions." In fact, the first sleepwalker to show up is the far more uncontrolled Clithero, who almost seems to have infected Edgar with his affliction.
Brown was clearly a pioneer of psychological analysis in the history of the novel. Like Edgar Allan Poe later, he probed the souls of his characters by plunging them into violent, imminently lethal situations. As a student of extreme states of the human psyche, he was not only a predecessor of Poe, but of Hawthorne and Melville as well. Yet Brown lacked the ability to apply his talent to the creation of highly individualized characters, one of the strengths of great nineteenth century novelists such as Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. All of the characters in Edgar Huntly, the protagonist included, remain little more than phantoms inhabiting a largely crepuscular world throughout the course of the action. However, like other trailblazing figures in the early history of American fiction-James Fenimore Cooper is a perfect example-Brown had an estimable ability to create atmosphere. It is not intended as a sarcasm to say that the reader may feel he or she is turning into a sleepwalker while reading Edgar Huntly.
"Edgar Huntly" represents the early American epistolary novel at its finest. It provides the opportunity to give historical and cultural insight and at the same time, does so in language that does not alienate the 21st century reader. A relatable and adventurous narrator keeps the rich plot moving through a cast of exciting characters, intriguing turns, and vast and thrilling adventure.
Some may be displeased with recurring incidences of sexism and racism, and while they are certainly noteworthy, the context of the book ought to be considered; it was first published in 1799, an era where such ideas were the norm (while this does not necessarily make them "good" or "acceptable", it does shed insight on the thoughts of the times). This aside, the text has much to offer, and we as readers have much to learn from it. Depictions of a still-wild American landscape excite the heart and tense drama pulls the mind along.
I read this for a graduate-level mericanist class. I really enjoyed the first half, though the second half was a little sensationalist for my taste. (I believe the phrase I coined to describe the second half was "rife with gratuitous scalpings").
If you're interested in this period, by all means read it. It is an interesting work with many layers of complexity. It was just not my personal favorite.
A thrilling gothic mystery that follows Edgar Huntly on his journey to find out who killed his friend Waldegrave. He sees a sleepwalker and concludes he might be the murderer and demands that he confess, and he does confess but not to the murder of Waldegrave, and begins telling of his life in Ireland. Huntly himself also sleepwalks and finds himself on an adventure involving a panther and Indians. Brown uses sleepwalking to drive the story as well as the theme of morality and truth.
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