Philip Barnard is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas.Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

This new edition of Arthur Mervyn far exceeds any previous version of this remarkable American novel. Through exhaustive archival research, the editors have produced a reliable text constructed within the intellectual, cultural, political, and religious contexts of a society informing Brown's efforts to capture and preserve the formation of the early republic for generations of readers and cultural historians. This vital text is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the United States.--Emory Elliott, University Professor, University of California-Riverside