{"product_id":"ormond-9781551110912","title":"Ormond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, \u003ci\u003eOrmond\u003c\/i\u003e was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, \u003ci\u003eOrmond\u003c\/i\u003e examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her marvelous new edition of \u003ci\u003eOrmond\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Chapman has given scholars, teachers and students of Charles Brockden Brown what they have longed for: an affordable paperback edition complete with a trenchant, historically-textured introduction to Brown’s least known, and most underrated major novel. Chapman’s exhaustive labour in both the classic and contemporary criticism of the early American novel, coupled with her thorough knowledge of the philosophical and political pamphlet literature of the early national period, afford the modern reader the very sort of ‘thick description’ so often lost in considering the work of America’s first ‘professional’ novelist.” ― Julia Stern, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003eCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmond; or, The Secret Witness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on the Appendices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: From John Robison’s \u003cem\u003eProofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies\u003c\/em\u003e (1798)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Selections from Jedidiah Morse’s “A Sermon Exhibiting the Present Dangers, and Consequent Duties of the Citizens of the United States” (1799)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited and Recommended Reading\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041302577495,"sku":"9781551110912","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551110912.jpg?v=1750949726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ormond-9781551110912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}