...Peter Howell The College of William & Mary 2004 Godwin, Contractarianism, and the Political Dead End of Empiricism Peter Howell St.Mary’s College, University of Surrey At one point near...

...Rowland Weston Burke's outrage at the revolutionary insult dealt to Marie Antoinette is one of the better-known pieces of the British pamphlet war that erupted in the wake of the French Revolution. What is less well known today is that William Godwin's anarchist magnum opus, Enquiry Concerning...

... they claimed was unique to this threat. This legal doctrine is a covert presence in William Godwin’s novel Caleb Williams (1794). Ferdinando Falkland, fearing that his secret is about to be revealed by Caleb, accuses him of having “robbed” him, and even though Falkland’s secret is literally murder, the mutual...

... genres of drama and non-fictional prose” (9). Havens organizes the book by canonical authors Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth—with a final chapter on Laurence Sterne, Matthew Lewis, and William Godwin. The strengths of this organization are many: the chapters...

... was not appointed pocket-­book maker to the Prince of Wales, a title that John Godwin, a jeweler and pocket-­book maker, used in his business advertise- Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture     6 9 Figure 6d. Ornate...

... prolific theoretical literature on happiness, but rapidly shifts to reading novels that embody happiness in a variety of lives: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, and Mary Hays’s Emma Courtney. Norton’s...

..., is intuitively correct. Hays— outspoken feminist, friend of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and unabashed publicist of her unrequited love in the semi-auto- biographical Emma Courtney— was not the soul sister of Elizabeth Hamil- ton, retired Scottish writer of domestic tales, who relentlessly...

... Godwin and Wollstonecraft, whose narratives in their messy exploration of internal contradictions and moral ambiguity point toward a newly developing Romanticism” (252). Without ever saying as much, Wallace develops a case for the romanticism of the English Jacobin novel on the basis of such messy...

... of the collective effort “Joineriana” by Barbauld and her brother John Aiken. Ultimately, the domesticated voice of dissent widens out to a vision of a middle-class commercial spirit that defines the entire modern British nation. The following chapters on Godwin and Coleridge produce contrasts...

... tapestry. To offer another example, the publication of William Godwin’s diary in a digitized and fully searchable format allows us to map the activities of the London Irish in more detail than previously possible. We already knew that Dubliners John and Benjamin Binns were involved in radical...

... male. Mackie’s complex analysis of gender, manners, and class yields a plain conclusion: these glamorous creatures are really just criminals, or alternatively, juvenile delinquents, a point she conveys by sarcastically repeating “boys will be boys.” Like her hero William Godwin, she “indicts...

.... William Godwin, whose famous position in Political Justice that marriage is “a system of fraud” (2), serves as Walker’s primary example of a polemical anti-­ marriage theorist. Percy Bysshe Shelley, for whom marriage is “a death camp on all sides” (25), provides strong backup. In contrast, Walker...

... into vehicles of social critique. In his essay, Rowland Weston explores nuances of periodization as they pertain to the historical novel at the end of the eighteenth century. Taking up William Godwin’s St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, a novel that engages European culture’s transition...

.... Michelle Levy and Scott Krawczyk, in particular, have in recent years addressed family authorship as a “distinctive and in—uential cultural formation of the roman- tic period,” giving short case studies of the Wordsworths, Coleridges, Godwins, Shelleys, Edgeworths, and Aikins.13 The Burney family...

... of William Godwin, delivered a paper on the mechanical reproduction of letters by James Watts’s patent copying machine. Clemit’s momentous edition is based upon letters surviving in the Abinger Col- lection, recently acquired by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.1 The confer- ence ended with a roundtable...

... morally and aesthetically replicates that of the master, while the footman remains a child of the family. In this context, Straub considers Tobias Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker and Wil- liam Godwin’s Caleb Williams as endorsing and introducing different variations of cross-­class homosocial bonds...

... explication. Reviewing John Gay s two volumes of Fables (1727, 1738), Robert Dodsley s Essay on Fable (1762), and William Godwin s Fables Ancient and Modern (1805), Benedict maps out how authors from the early, middle, and end of the eighteenth century approach the moral and moraliz- ing function of the genre...

...-century Britain is stun- ning to contemplate. Consider the William Godwin diary encoded by the Oxford team, which tracks, day by day, the places Godwin went and the persons he met for a period of nearly four decades, from 1788 to 1836. Other examples are the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse and Henry...

... examples are the “Jacobin novel” and its belated adversary, the anti-Jacobin novel (works such as Sophia King’s Waldorf; or, The Dangers of Philosophy [1798], Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of the Modern Philosophers [1800], and Edward Dubois’ St. Godwin [180050...

...). According to Maioli, Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Austen all take up the challenge of figuring out how to tell the truth of experience in fiction. That challenge is most precisely mounted in the work of David Hume. While Hume s view of fiction was certainly complex, He...