Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Often described as a “gothic novel,” this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the “early American novel,” or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.

This volume contains a critical edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, the third of his novels to be published in 1799 and the first to deal with the American wilderness. The basis of the …