Godwinian Moments : : From the Enlightenment to Romanticism / / Victoria Myers, Robert Maniquis.

Godwinian Moments is the first ever book collection on the work of William Godwin, the radical British philosopher, novelist, and pamphleteer who contributed extensively to the political and cultural shifts of 1783 to 1834. These essays reveal Godwin as a manyfaceted thinker, pursuing progressive ch...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • Introduction / Myers, Victoria
  • PART I. Godwin'S Radical Moment
  • 1. Godwin's Calvinist Ghosts: Political Justice and Caleb Williams / Maniquis, Robert M.
  • 2. Godwin, Thelwall, and the Means of Progress / Philp, Mark
  • 3. 'The Press and Danger of the Crowd': Godwin, Thelwall, and the Counter-Public Sphere / Mee, Jon
  • 4. 'Awakening the Mind': William Godwin's Enquirer / Handwerk, Gary
  • 5. Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library / Anderson, Robert
  • PART II. Godwin'S Experiments with History
  • 6. Oratory and History: Godwin's History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Myers, Victoria
  • 7. The Disfiguration of Enlightenment: War, Trauma, and the Historical Novel in Godwin's Mandeville / Rajan, Tilottama
  • 8. 'This is the dread hour, / That must decide the fate of England!': Godwin's St Dunstan / O'Shaughnessy, David
  • 9. Heavy Drama / Carlson, Julie A.
  • PART III. Godwin'S Acquaintances
  • 10. The Philosopher and the Moneylender: The Relationship between William Godwin and John King / Scrivener, Michael
  • 11. Commerce of Luminaries: Eight Letters between William Godwin and Thomas Wedgwood / Clemit, Pamela
  • Contributors
  • Index