Godwin and the Book : Imagining Media 1783-1836 Hardback
by J. Louise McCray
Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism series
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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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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781474475761
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781474475761
