Overview
- Develops and extends the current scholarly interest in William Godwin’s work
- Examines familiar and unfamiliar texts by Godwin and opens up new areas of critical discussion via archival research
- Argues for a fresh approach to Godwin’s life and work and calls for a wider frame for critical analysis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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About this book
This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle and on Dissenting intellectual circles, but the present collection considers him closely as an author and thinker on his own terms. The range of texts and topics covered by this collection will be of interest both to scholars familiar with Godwin and those approaching his work for the first time.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fears
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Reviews
“An impressive and well-crafted essay collection that will be of real interest to Godwin scholars at a time when he remains a prominent figure within Romantic debates.” (Paul Keen, is Professor of English at Carleton University, Canada, and author of A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age (2020))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eliza O’Brien works in further education, and has published a range of articles on Godwin and his circle.
Helen Stark works at University College London, UK. She has published on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron. Her PhD on men of feeling and national identity in Romantic Literature was awarded by Newcastle University, UK, in 2013.
Beatrice Turner works at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her first monograph, Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and Retrospection 1820-1850, was published in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Approaches to William Godwin
Book Subtitle: Forms, Fears, Futures
Editors: Eliza O'Brien, Helen Stark, Beatrice Turner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62912-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62911-3Published: 30 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62914-4Published: 31 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62912-0Published: 29 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 308
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature