Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, With Related Texts

Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel *Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793* connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This edition of *Arthur Mervyn* offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.