Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).
Political Pamphlets,volume 4 of the series, brings together, for the first time, the three political pamphlets and related writings of Charles Brockden Brown. While Brown is well known as a novelist and editor, his pamphlets addressing the Louisiana Question and Jefferson's Embargo are here presented and contextualized in terms of the period's geopolitical developments and the newspaper polemics that were their immediate context. Each edited text provides detailed information concerning publication history, provenance, and attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotation. A Historical Essay locates the pamphlets in the wider contexts of Brown’s literary career, the print culture of the Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the literary history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while a Textual Essay provides full bibliographical information on the sources for all copy-texts, as well as extensive description of the editorial protocols. The volume substantially reshapes our understanding of Brown's corpus and development, and provides insights into the relations of literary, journalistic, and political writing during the Jefferson and Madison administrations. The Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association has awarded the volume a seal of certification as an MLA Approved Scholarly Edition.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I. Political Pamphlets
An Address to the Government of the United States, on the Cession of Louisiana to the French: and on the Late Breach of Treaty by the Spaniards: Including the Translation of a Memorial, on the War of St. Domingo, and Cession of the Missisippi to France Drawn up by a French Counsellor of State
Monroe’s Embassy, or, The Conduct of the Government in Relation to Our Claims to the Navigation of the Missisippi, Considered, By the Author of An Address to the Government of the United States on the Cession of Louisiana, &c. &c.
An Address to the Congress of the United States, on the Utility and Justice of Restrictions Upon Foreign Commerce, with Reflections on Foreign Trade in General, and the Future Prospects of America
Part II. Poplicola Texts in Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser
“QUERIES Relative to War with Spain,” October 1, 1804
“ON A WAR WITH SPAIN,” October 8, 1804
Illustrations
Historical Essay
Textual Essay
Historical Collation (1803)
Selected Bibliography
End-Line Hyphenation List
Index
About the Author :
Mark L. Kamrath is professor of English at the University of Central Florida.
Stephen Shapiro is professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
Maureen Tuthill is researcher and administrator at Long Island University.
