10. Patrick W. Carey. Orestes A. Brownson: A Bibliography, 1826-1876. ISBN 0-87462-634-X. ©1997. Paperbound. Index. 212 pp. $25
Orestes A. Brownson was one of the most original, creative, and controversial of the American intellectuals in early and mid nineteenth century America.
Marquette University Press is publishing now a Bibliography of Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings which contains a comprehensive and annotated list of the published works of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-76) from 1826 until his death in 1876. The bibliography offers for the first time a complete list of over 1500 of his essays, pamphlets and books.
Marquette University Press will also publish a seven-volume critical edition of Orestes A. Brownson’s Early Works. These four volumes will cover the period prior to Brownson’s conversion to Catholicism, 1826 to 1843. Most of the provocative and critical essays he wrote during this period were never republished in his son Henry’s twenty-volume edition of his works.
His most significant essays on religion, politics, philosophy, literature and American culture will be republished here for the first time.
Each of the four volumes will be preceded by an historical introduction which situates Brownson and his writings in the context of American and European intellectual history. Detailed indexes will assist researchers in using these volumes. The writings as well as the volumes themselves will be arranged chronologically to demonstrate clearly the development of Brownson’s thought. One volume will be produced each year starting in January of 1997.
Dr. Patrick W. Carey is Professor of Theology at Marquette University.
Marquette University Press
