... accounting. His position was soon supplied by Percy Shelley's similar combination of political sympathy, financial assistance and eventual exasperation. © 2010 Leeds Trinity and All Saints College 2010 Abstract The Leverhulme-funded editing of William Godwin's diary aims to ‘to construct a picture...

... of a Six Weeks Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, and Holland in November 1817 and Frankenstein in January 1818. Mary’s father, William Godwin, deemed Mary’s third book, Mathilda, too scandalous for public consumption because of its themes of suicide and incest. Mary uses of the word ‘liberty...

... William Godwin Friedrich Schiller FROM 1797 to 1820 the story of the Gothic would seem to be one of rise and fall. Glancing back at an adulthood misspent as a Gothic novelist, the Irish writer Charles Robert Maturin ruefully noted that the fashion for terror was already ‘out’ in 1807, the year of his...

..., in union with the feminine—Mother Earth and his lover. Jupiter is replaced by his son Demogorgon, who is seen as a creative and unifying force, instead of destructive and oppressive. The influence of William Godwin’s philosophies are present in the play, which mirrors Shelley’s vision of an ideal society...

...The two aspects of William Godwin's thought, his regretful condemnation of the aristocracy and his emphasis on moral reform in advance of practical measures, make the first edition of Caleb Williams far more than a straightforward commentary on social abuses. No doubt...

...The development of Godwinian methods in pursuit of a critique of William Godwin is Charles Brockden Brown's distinctive achievement in Wieland; or, The Transformation, his first completed novel, published September 1798. Brown's use of subjective narrative techniques to convey...

... intellectual uncertainty, Shelley achieved an unparalleled extension of the imaginative scope of the Godwinian novel. Through the unforgettable images at the heart of Frankenstein and The Last Man, the symbolic concerns of William Godwin's tradition are both revitalized...

... close readings of central texts in ancient and modern political philosophy. Its main chapters reconstruct the concepts of care employed by thinkers as different as Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and William Godwin. Through its critical engagement with Plato’s provocations about the need for caring...

...William Godwin was a leading radical political philosopher, novelist, and social thinker of the British Enlightenment. He was the author of Political Justice, a founding text of philosophical anarchism, and of the novel Caleb Williams. He was committed...

... opinion courtroom Thomas Paine William Godwin William Hone censorship The lapsing of the licensing act in 1695 set the legal conditions for the prosecution of political opinion in the eighteenth century, although in the theater the conditions were somewhat different. The Licensing Act of 1737 made...

... writer reader relationship Haworth Fanny Venice Fox William Johnson Monthly Repository Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine imagination love power Whig s Rome Mary Shelley Robert Browning William Godwin republicanism imperialism Italy Guelph Ghibelline poetics historicism Italy, its history...

...Enlightenment theorists of education and advocates for children’s literature like John Locke and William Godwin associated reading with the rights-bearing, independent subject who stands at the center of liberal political tradition. This identification would be reiterated over time, including...

... speech in Great Britain. William Godwin's Caleb Williams is the best-known and most intricate example of the genre. The chapter explores Godwin's work, along with that of a few others, in order to further explore the characteristics that make up the political novel. adventure novel Bage...

...This epilogue studies William Godwin's theory of ideology, assessing his book Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1796), which identifies unfelt and active forces holding humanity back from social happiness. The virtuality of feeling for Godwin is a potential menace. The very...

...This chapter compares William Godwin to Charles Brockden Brown, who was struggling to survive as a man of letters in a nation suddenly overrun with speculators, bankers, lawyers, and soldiers. By the early nineteenth century, the eighteenth-century blend of intellectual, social, and economic...

...From the mid-eighteenth century onward, histories of England written for children became a very popular literary genre, attempted by authors as various as Oliver Goldsmith, Jane Austen, William Godwin, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin and H. E. Marshall (Our Island Story, 1905...

...This chapter examines William Godwin's role in the development of philosophical utilitarianism. It first provides a background on Godwin's early life before discussing his relationships, first with Mary Wollstonecraft whom he married and then with Mary Jane Clairmont, his second wife...

...This chapter discusses the children’s books written by political philosopher and literary figure William Godwin, which he produced for his London-based publishing-cum-bookselling enterprise “Juvenile Library” (1805–1825). According to Godwin, he used to “consult” his own five children...

...This chapter explores the significance of libraries in a range of nineteenth-century novels including William Godwin’s Fleetwood, Walter Scott’s The Antiquary, and M. A. Ward’s Robert Elsmere. It shows how writers used intimate relationships...

... and 1940s, but Ascari goes further by presenting a full prehistory of the genre, arguing that it has roots in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theories of the conflicted, often irrational mind. Beginning with William Godwin’s psychological philosophy, including its application in the novel...