Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, with Related Texts
Readers familiar with the Bedford Series in History and Culture or with the Norton Critical Editions will recognize the pedagogical goals of the volume under review: a reprinting of Charles Brockden Brown's fourth major novel, imbedded in one hundred pages of scholarly apparatus designed to mak...
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| Published in: | Gothic Studies 2008-05, Vol.10 (1), p.71 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Readers familiar with the Bedford Series in History and Culture or with the Norton Critical Editions will recognize the pedagogical goals of the volume under review: a reprinting of Charles Brockden Brown's fourth major novel, imbedded in one hundred pages of scholarly apparatus designed to make the book more amenable to teaching. Brown himself invites his reader to situate Edgar Huntly's story in a vast cultural landscape at least part of which Brown depicts, quite literally, as a maze: the circular tangle of rushing streams, rocky canyons, and towering stone monoliths that he names Norwalk, the scene of much of the book's most violent action. There is something to be said for inviting student readers to critique the scholarly apparatus that they are often required to consume: to resist having great books packaged in some fashion that seeks to establish in advance the terms on which the artist and the audience are to meet. |
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| ISSN: | 1362-7937 2050-456X |