Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Philip Barnard is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas.Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

This is now the edition of choice for those of us who teach Brown's fascinating Edgar Huntly. Barnard and Shapiro explore the relevant historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds in their illuminating Introduction; they skillfully annotate the text; they provide useful and up-to-date bibliographies; and they append a number of revealing primary texts for further cultural contextualization. This edition will help to stimulate new thinking about race, empire, and sexuality in Brown's prescient novel of the American frontier. --Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland