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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"William Godwin"”.
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The political philosophy of William Godwin
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Political Science, 1957
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… work regarding the historical fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley, specifically considering the importance of Godwin’s unpublished essay on genre, “Of History and Romance” (1797), in the creation of a unique approach to historical fiction, the Godwinian historical novel. To do this, …
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… writing of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin. Focusing primarily on Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by three major elements noted in the criticism on Hardy’s literary art in general …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… capacity for narrative. Through my readings of William Godwin, George Colman the Younger, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, I uncover a radical Romantic aesthetic that critiques the politics of witness and privileges the politics of social implication. We are accustomed …
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
This thesis examines the work of William Godwin in terms of a conjunction between secular Enlightenment optimism and the psychology of Christian hope. This conjunction produced his particular inflection of human perfectibility, where the idea of liberal improvement in society becomes a …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… of the Romantic period such as Olaudah Equiano, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley responded to this moral dilemma of liberal individualism by developing a new understanding of humility in their works. The meaning of humility in the West has been fundamentally shaped by the Jewish and Christian …
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Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… mistrust. My final chapter devotes space to William Godwin, whose novels underscore the moral horror of the scaffold not just as the ultimate reification of the law’s power but, more interestingly, as the terminus of the “poor deserted individual, with the whole force of the community …
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
… historical change. The five men so studied are William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael [Mikhail] Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Gustav Landauer. These five represent the major tendencies of nineteenth century European anarchism, while also providing a broad geographical and chronological …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
Contributing to our understanding of self-development in literature, Object Lessons: Technologies of Education in British Literature: 1762-1851, examines Romantic-era and Victorian writers who represent education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called …