![]() ![]() It is unaccompanied by an appearance of uncommon earnestness." Yet the request in the quoted letter appears quite earnest. Thus in Chapter 15, in the paragraph following the letter at the beginning of the chapter, Pattee, relying on the 1798 text, reads "Yet this request is preferred with the utmost gravity. Since the 1798 text is much cleaner than the texts of Brown's other novels, the improvements of Reid's over Pattee's version are not enormous, but they are significant and increase the clarity of Brown's prose, murky at best. Reid's principles are carefully set forth in the 1977 volume of the "Bicentennial Edition," on which the present paperback is based. ![]() Reid, could devote to the preparation of this new edition. Though he conscientiously used the 1798 first edition as his copy text, Pattee did not have the bibliographical techniques or, presumably, the time that the Kent textual editor, S. This edition was reprinted in the 1950s and again in the 1960s. In 1926 Fred Lewis Pattee's edition of Wieland and "Memoirs of Carwin" appeared in the American Authors Series under the supervision of Stanley T. Studies in American Fiction245 Brown, Charles Brockden. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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