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Godwin and the book
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- Book 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.
- About The Author
- J. Louise McCray received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh where she was a tutor in English Literature. Her publications include 'Novel-Reading, Ethics, and William Godwin in the 1830s', in Studies in Romanticism and ''Peril in the means of its diffusion': William Godwin on Truth and Social Media', article forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Ideas (both in press).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781474475761
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (30 April 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 216
- Weight
- 474 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 20 mm
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