Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part]

Philadelphia

Hugh Maxwell

1799

Words may operate on the "frame like lightning"

These words operated on my frame like lightning. All within me was tumult and terror, and I rushed precipately out of the house. I went forward with unequal steps, and at random. Some instinct led me into the fields, and I was not apprized of the direction of my steps, till, looking up, I found myself on the shore of the Schuylkill.
(Part I, chapter 11, p. 322)

Weather::Lightning

Reading

First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.

07/18/2003