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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808294403321

Autore

Maniquis Robert

Titolo

Godwinian moments : from the enlightenment to romanticism / / edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Victoria Myers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9399-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY / General

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Godwin's radical moment. Godwin's Calvinist ghosts : political justice and Caleb Williams / Robert M. Maniquis ; Godwin, Thelwall, and the means of progress / Mark Philp ; "The press and danger of the crowd" : Godwin, Thelwall, and the counter-public sphere / Jon Mee ; "Awakening the mind" : William Godwin's Enquirer / Gary Handwerk ; Godwin disguised : politics in the juvenile library / Robert Anderson -- Godwin's experiments with history. Oratory and history : Godwin's History of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Victoria Myers ; The disfiguration of enlightenment : war, trauma, and the historical novel in Godwin's Mandeville / Tilottama Rajan ; "This is the dread hour, /that must decide the fate of England!" : Godwin's St. Dunstan / David O'Shaughnessy ; Heavy drama / Julie A. Carlson -- Godwin's acquaintances. The philosopher and the moneylender : the relationship between William Godwin and John King / Michael Scrivener ; Commerce of luminaries : eight letters between William Godwin and Thomas Wedgwood / Pamela Clemit.

Sommario/riassunto

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.