Edgar Huntley

Japanese: 《エドガー・ハントリー》 - えどがーはんとりー
Edgar Huntley

…Born into a Quaker merchant family in Philadelphia, he studied law, but became a prolific writer, starting with the publication of A Treatise on the Rights of Women in 1797. His four best-known novels are Wieland (1798), Edgar Huntly, Ormond, and Arthur Marvin (all 1799). The first two are adaptations of the Gothic romance style that was popular in England at the end of the 18th century to the American setting, and are considered to be the forerunners of the Gothic tradition in American literature that continues to this day. …

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Japanese:

…フィラデルフィアのクエーカー教徒の商人の家に生まれ,法律を学んだが,1797年に女権論を出版したのを皮切りに健筆をふるった。彼の小説では《ウィーランド》(1798),《エドガー・ハントリー》《オーモンド》《アーサー・マービン》(いずれも1799)の4編が有名である。先の2編は18世紀末にイギリスで流行したゴシック・ロマンスの型をアメリカの舞台に応用したもので,今日にいたるまで連綿とつづくアメリカ文学におけるゴシック的伝統のさきがけと考えられる。…

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