One of the first Romantic novels written in America was set in Philadelphia. What was the novel and who was the author?
Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, written in 1799, was based on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. Its vivid, almost sensationalistic appeal to the emotions mark it as influenced by the British Romantics. Source: “Charles Brockden Brown” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 37. Edited by Emory Eliot, The Gale Group, 1985. pg. 69-81.
