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A fantasy of reason: the life and thought of William Godwin
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ISBN: 0710003870 Year: 1980 Publisher: London


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William Godwin : a political life
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ISBN: 1786803909 1786803895 9781786803894 9780745338354 0745338356 9780745338361 9781786803917 9781786803900 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Pluto Press

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"Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind"--William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, and his thought rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Famously married to Mary Wollstonecraft, father to Mary Shelley, and inspiration to Lord Byron, he lived a life and created a body of work that lie at the heart of British radicalism and romanticism.In this biography, Richard Gough Thomas reads Godwin afresh, drawing on newly discovered letters and journals. He situates Godwin's early life in the counterculture of eighteenth-century religious dissent, before moving on to exploring the ideas of the French Revolution. As Godwin's groundbreaking works propelled him from Whig party hack to celebrity philosopher, his love affair with Mary Wollstonecraft saw him ostracized in both liberal and conservative circles.Godwin's anarchism always remained at the center of his work, Thomas shows, inspiring libertarians, both left- and right-wing. This biography places Godwin alongside the other members of his famous family as a major political, ethical, and educational writer and shows why a reappraisal of his ideas is pertinent today.


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New approaches to William Godwin : forms, fears, futures
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ISBN: 3030629120 3030629112 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,


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The philosophical anarchism of William Godwin
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ISBN: 0691072175 Year: 1977 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press


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Godwinian moments : from the enlightenment to romanticism
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ISBN: 1442693991 9781442693999 1442642432 9781442642430 9781442642430 Year: 2011 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press,

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Godwinian Moments is the first ever book collection on the work of William Godwin, the radical British philosopher, novelist, and pamphleteer who contributed extensively to the political and cultural shifts of 1783 to 1834.


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Love in the time of revolution
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ISBN: 9781469608266 146960826X 9781469607504 1469607506 1469607514 1469633493 9798890843920 9781469607511 9798890843913 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chapel Hill Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press

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"In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft's life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love's place in human society. Literary radicals argued that the cultivation of intense friendship could lead to the renovation of social and political institutions, whereas others maintained that these freethinkers were indulging their own desires with a disregard for stability and higher authority. Through correspondence and novels, Andrew Cayton finds an ideal lens to view authors, characters, and readers all debating love's power to alter men and women in the world around them. Cayton argues for Wollstonecraft's and Godwin's enduring influence on fiction published in Great Britain and the United States and explores Mary Godwin Shelley's endeavors to sustain her mother's faith in romantic love as an engine of social change"--

England's first family of writers
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ISBN: 0801891833 1435691970 9780801891830 9781435691971 9780801886188 080188618X Year: 2007 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press


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William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and their offspring, Victor Frankenstein
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ISBN: 0779980395 9780779980390 9781495504525 1495504522 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lewiston, New York

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"This book details the lives of the authors with special emphasis on subversive, progressive, and alternative views advanced by their family and the role that these ideas played in Mary Shelley gothic interest and curiosity of the dark side of humanity's existence"--


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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
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ISBN: 9780801897214 0801897211 0801899214 Year: 2010 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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