The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 4

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 4

Author: Pamela Clemit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1351220969

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A collection in eight volumes of the novels and memoirs of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers and radical thinkers of his age. There is a general introduction covering Godwin's life and literary works and each volume is prefaced by a scholarly introduction.


The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, Vol. 4: St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, Vol. 4: St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

Author: William Godwin

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13:

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The first complete edition of William Godwin, the chief philosophical exponent of English radicalism. containing some novels, which have never before appeared in scholarly editions, and some manuscript material published for the first time. His works were a major influence on Thomas Holcroft, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and on his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft.


The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin

Author: Mark Philp

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 2024

ISBN-13: 1000744019

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A collection in eight volumes of the novels and memoirs of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers and radical thinkers of his age. There is a general introduction covering Godwin's life and literary works and each volume is prefaced by a scholarly introduction.


St. Leon

St. Leon

Author: William Godwin

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-02-22

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1770482466

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Set in Europe during the Protestant Reformation and first published in 1799, St. Leon tells the story of an impoverished aristocrat who obtains the philosopher's stone and the elixir of immortality. In this philosophical fable, endless riches and immortal life prove to be curses rather than gifts and transform St. Leon into an outcast. William Godwin's second full-length novel explores the predicament of a would-be philanthropist whose attempts to benefit humanity are frustrated by superstition and ignorance. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. The appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel; Godwin’s writings on immortality, the domestic affections, and alchemy; and selections from works influenced by St. Leon, most notably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.


Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Author: William Godwin

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2001-02-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1551112590

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William Godwin’s memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a transition in Godwin’s philosophical development from extreme rationalism to the recognition of the moral importance of feeling and sympathy which was to energize his later writings. Memoirs also belongs to a tradition of biographical writing that sought to transform the consciousness of readers by using individual history as an agent of historical change. Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft’s early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft’s writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. This modern, scholarly edition, geared for student use, includes a wide range of primary sources, together with excerpts from Godwin’s other writings and from biographical models.


The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 1

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 1

Author: Pamela Clemit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1351221086

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A collection in eight volumes of the novels and memoirs of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers and radical thinkers of his age. There is a general introduction covering Godwin's life and literary works and each volume is prefaced by a scholarly introduction.


Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Author: Christopher John Murray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 1303

ISBN-13: 1135455791

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In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.


Gothic Writers

Gothic Writers

Author: Douglass H. Thomson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-11-30

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0313006911

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With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference is designed to accommodate the critical and bibliographical needs of a broad spectrum of users, from scholars seeking critical assistance to general readers wanting an introduction to the Gothic, its abundant criticism, and the present state of Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today. Each of the entries is devoted to a particular author or group of authors whose works exhibit Gothic elements, beginning with a primary bibliography of works by the writer, including modern editions. This section is followed by a critical essay, which examines the author's use of Gothic themes, the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and the critical reception of the author's works. The entries close with selected, annotated bibliographies of scholarly studies. The volume concludes with a timeline and a bibliography of the most important broad scholarly works on the Gothic.


Wollstonecraft's Ghost

Wollstonecraft's Ghost

Author: Andrew McInnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1315523159

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Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century. McInnes positions Wollstonecraft within the context of the eighteenth-century female philosopher figure as a literary archetype used in plays, poetry, polemic and especially novels, to represent the thinking woman and address anxieties about political, religious, and sexual heterodoxy. He provides detailed analyses of the ways in which women writers such as Mary Hays, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth negotiate Wollstonecraft's reputation as personal, political, and sexual pariah to reformulate her radical politics for a post-revolutionary Britain in urgent need of reform. Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, McInnes suggests, work as state-of-the-nation novels, drawing on Wollstonecraft's ideas to explore a changing England. McInnes concludes with an examination of Mary Shelley's engagement with her mother throughout her career as a novelist, arguing that Shelley gradually overcomes her anxiety over her mother's stature to address Wollstonecraft's ideas with increasing confidence.