Godwin and the Book

Godwin and the Book Imagining Media, 1783-1836 - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

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Publisher's Synopsis

'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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474475778
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 203
Weight: 340g
Height: 232mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 14mm