The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin vol 1

The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin vol 1
Author: Mark Philp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000748936

Contains all the major political, philosophical and educational writings of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers of his age. His work on government and individual freedom, "Political Justice", made him the chief exponent of English radicalism in the latter half of the 18th century.

New Approaches to William Godwin

New Approaches to William Godwin
Author: Eliza O'Brien
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030629120

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.

The Enquirer

The Enquirer
Author: William Godwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1823
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN:

Romantic Rationalist

Romantic Rationalist
Author: William Godwin
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1629633283

William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family included his partner, pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and his daughter Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), who would go on to write Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. His long life straddled two centuries. Not only did he live at the center of radical and intellectual London during the French Revolution, he also commented on some of the most significant changes in modern history. Shaped by the Enlightenment, he became a key figure in English Romanticism. This work offers for the first time a handy collection of Godwin’s key writings in a clear and concise form, together with an assessment of his influence, a biographical sketch, and an analysis of his contribution to anarchist theory and practice. The selections are taken from all of Godwin’s writings including his groundbreaking work during the French Revolution, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and arranged by editor Peter Marshall to give a coherent account of his thought for the general reader. Godwin’s work will be of interest to all those who believe that rationality, truth, happiness, individuality, equality, and freedom are central concerns of human enquiry and endeavor.

Godwinian Moments

Godwinian Moments
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442642432

"In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

William Godwin and the Theatre

William Godwin and the Theatre
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317323734

William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.

British Romanticism and Prison Reform

British Romanticism and Prison Reform
Author: Jonas Cope
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2024-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684485371

In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Handbook of British Romanticism

Handbook of British Romanticism
Author: Ralf Haekel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110376695

The Handbook of British Romanticism is a state of the art investigation of Romantic literature and theory, a field that probably changed more quickly and more fundamentally than any other traditional era in literary studies. Since the early 1980s, Romantic studies has widened its scope significantly: The canon has been expanded, hitherto ignored genres have been investigated and new topics of research explored. After these profound changes, intensified by the general crisis of literary theory since the turn of the millennium, traditional concepts such as subjectivity, imagination and the creative genius have lost their status as paradigms defining Romanticism. The handbook will feature discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, science and the use of media as well as a thorough account of the most central literary genres around the turn of the 19th century. The focus of the book, however, will lie on a discussion of key literary texts in the light of the most recent theoretical developments. Thus, the Handbook of British Romanticism will provide students with an introduction to Romantic literature in general and literary scholars with a discussion of innovative and groundbreaking theoretical developments.