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Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
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Language | English |
Genre | Gothic novel |
Publisher | H. Maxwell |
Publication date | 1799 |
Publication place | United States |
Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is a 1799 Gothic novel set in rural Pennsylvania in 1787 by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. The novel was published by Hugh Maxwell. It is considered an example of early American gothic literature, with themes such as wilderness anxiety, the supernatural, darkness, and irrational thought and fear.