"[Alcuin]"

Title"[Alcuin]"
Year for Search1798
AuthorsBrown, Charles Brockden(1771-1810)
Secondary TitleThe Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works, From His Original Letters, And From His Manuscripts Before Unpublished
Volume / Edition2 vols.
Pagination1:71-105
Date Published[1798]/1815
PublisherJames P. Parke
Place PublishedPhiladelphia, PA
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Eutopia of complete gender equality. No marriage.

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U.K. ed. as “The Paradise of Women, From ‘Alcuin’.” In William Dunlap. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, The American Novelist, Author of Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, &c. With Selections from His Original Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings (London: Ptd. for Henry Colburn and Co., 1822), 247-308. Parts I and II of Alcuin, which do not include the utopia had been published as Alcuin: A Dialogue. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. Rpt. as Alcuin: A Dialogue by Charles Brockton Brown. A Type-facsimile Reprint of the First Edition with an Introduction by L[eRoy] E[lwood] Kimball (vii-xxi). New Haven, CT: Carl & Margaret Rollins, 1935. An abr. version of these parts was published as “The Rights of Women: A Dialogue.” Weekly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 1.7 – 10 (March 17 – April 7 1798): 198-200; 231-36; 271-74; 299-302. All parts are available in Alcuin: A Dialogue. Ed. Lee E. Edwards. The Gehenna Tracts 3. Northampton. MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Rpt. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971; and in Alcuin. Ed. Cynthia A. Kerner New York: NCUP, Inc., 1995, with an “Introduction (3-37), “A Note on Text” (38), and “Suggested Readings” (39-40). Critical ed. in The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. Bicentennial Edition. Volume VI. Alcuin: A Dialogue and Memoirs of Stephen Calvet. Ed. Stanley J. Krause, S. W. Reid, and Robert D. Arner (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987), 1-67, an “Historical Essay” (273-98), a “Textual Essay” (313-56), “Textual Notes” (368-75), “Variants in Alcuin, Parts I and II” (376-422), “List of Emendations in Alcuin, Part III” (423), “End-of-Line Word-Division” (424), and “Record of Collations and Copies Consulted” (436-37).

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(1771-1810)

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[1798] Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810). [“Alcuin”]. In William Dunlap. The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works, From His Original Letters, And From His Manuscripts Before Unpublished. 2 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: James P. Parke, 1815), 1: 71-105. U.K. ed. as “The Paradise of Women, From ‘Alcuin’.” In William Dunlap. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, The American Novelist, Author of Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, &c. With Selections from His Original Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings (London: Ptd. for Henry Colburn and Co., 1822), 247-308. Parts I and II of Alcuin, which do not include the utopia had been published as Alcuin: A Dialogue. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. Rpt. as Alcuin: A Dialogue by Charles Brockton Brown. A Type-facsimile Reprint of the First Edition with an Introduction by L[eRoy] E[lwood] Kimball (vii-xxi). New Haven, CT: Carl & Margaret Rollins, 1935. An abr. version of these parts was published as “The Rights of Women: A Dialogue.” Weekly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 1.7 – 10 (March 17 – April 7 1798): 198-200; 231-36; 271-74; 299-302. All parts are available in Alcuin: A Dialogue. Ed. Lee E. Edwards. The Gehenna Tracts 3. Northampton. MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Rpt. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971; and in Alcuin. Ed. Cynthia A. Kerner New York: NCUP, Inc., 1995, with an “Introduction (3-37), “A Note on Text” (38), and “Suggested Readings” (39-40). Critical ed. in The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. Bicentennial Edition. Volume VI. Alcuin: A Dialogue and Memoirs of Stephen Calvet. Ed. Stanley J. Krause, S. W. Reid, and Robert D. Arner (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987), 1-67, an “Historical Essay” (273-98), a “Textual Essay” (313-56), “Textual Notes” (368-75), “Variants in Alcuin, Parts I and II” (376-422), “List of Emendations in Alcuin, Part III” (423), “End-of-Line Word-Division” (424), and “Record of Collations and Copies Consulted” (436-37). ATL, L, MoU-St, PSt

Eutopia of complete gender equality. No marriage.