<div><p>Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel <i>Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793</i> connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery.</p><p>This edition of <i>Arthur Mervyn</i> offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.</p></div>