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Title Godwinian moments : from the Enlightenment to Romanticism / edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Victoria Myers
Published [Toronto, Ont.] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, ©2011 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2011)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : illustrations, portrait, digital file
Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Friends and associates
Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Political and social views
Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Criticism and interpretation
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Friendship
Political and social views
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Maniquis, Robert M
Myers, Victoria, 1946-
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
LC no. 2011381728
ISBN 9781442693999
1442693991
1442642432
9781442642430