Godwin and the Book Imagining Media 1783 1836 Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
by [McCray, J. Louise]
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Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). It offers a fresh reading of Godwin's fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and essays to argue that, throughout his career, he figured books and reading in particular ways in order to defend a set of inherited beliefs about intellectual perfectibility. In the process, it highlights many wider debates that marked out the culture of this period - including disagreements over the physiology of the mind, the ethics of novel-reading, and the social consequences of death - and considers how these debates were intertwined with the formal development of British prose in the period.
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- Edinburgh University Pres Brand
- Apr 13, 2021 Pub Date:
- 9781474475761 ISBN-13:
- 1474475760 ISBN-10:
- 216.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
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