...Penny Fielding This essay address the problem of action in William Godwin's writing, comparing his characterization of the ethical decision in An Enquiry concerning Political Justice with his much more uneasy rendering of it in Caleb Williams . The novel, coming between the two editions...

...Caleb Smith Carl Ostrowski , Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America ( Amherst : U of Massachusetts P , 2016 ), pp. 234 , paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 What do we want from the archives of the legal and literary past? Some...

... . “The Emergence of the Police—The Colonial Dimension.” The British Journal of Criminology 27.1 ( 1987 ): 4 –22. Butler , Marilyn . “Godwin, Burke, and Caleb Williams.” Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal 32 ( 1982 ): 237 –57. Cobb , Joann P. “Godwin’s Novels and Political Justice...

... As They Are or the Adventures of Caleb Williams . Ed. Maurice Hindle. London: Penguin, 1988 . Johnson , Samuel . A Dictionary of the English Language . Ed. Anne McDermott. 1st and 4th eds. CD-ROM. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996 . Kaufmann , David . The Business of Common Life: Novels and Classical...

... fail (166). We can certainly understand the failed handshake as a kind of system breakdown, just as we can understand (as in A Sentimental Journey and Caleb Williams ) a text that ends with unresolved problems as a reflection of the eighteenth-century novel's resistance to tidy systematizing...

...: Historical Fiction and the National Question.” Novel: a Forum on Fiction 34.2 (Spring 2001 ): 293 –308. Godwin , William . Caleb Williams . Ed. Maurice Hindle. London: Penguin, 1987 . Godwin , William . The Enquirer. Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin . Ed...

... essay, “Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb Williams,” which I find an enthralling performance despite my skepticism about its thesis. I want to dwell on these three essays and one other, “Enlightenment Fiction and the Scien- tific Hypothesis...

... . Gladwell Malcolm . The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference . New York : Little, Brown , 2000 . Goddu Teresa A. Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation . New York : Columbia UP , 1997 . Godwin William . Caleb Williams; Or, Things...

..., for one, cannot wait to read it. To understand why such an account of the novel is needed, we might turn to the dilemma foregrounded in the final chapter, on easements and Caleb Williams. The chapter focuses on two radical (and radically opposed) eighteenth-century utopias of land-based justice...

...Beth Connors-Manke SMITH CALEB , The Prison and the American Imagination ( New Haven : Yale UP , 2009 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $40.00 ; paperback, $25.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Social Death and Moral Enlightenment caleb smith...

... REICHMAN I LAW ELSEWHERE As the lawyer became the voice of public perceptions of justice, this shift, Grossman argues, precipitated a transformation in fiction-viz, the development of free indirect discourse. In his reading of William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794), Grossman argues...

...Stacey Margolis Smith Caleb , The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2013 ) , pp. 264, cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Work Cited Ruttenburg Nancy . Democratic...

...- pany, Hazlitt sees them both as effecting acts of generic reconciliation: Caleb Williams and St. Leon revealing Godwin as "an inventor in the regions of romance, as well as a skillful and hardy explorer of those of moral truth" (Hazlitt 27-28); while Scott famously discovered that "facts...

... policing at home. Caroline Reitz's fine study makes it impossible to look at a whole history of narrative pro- duction, from Caleb Williams to Midsommer Murders, without thinking about the hard work of cultural forgetting that was involved in creating the quintessentially English de- tective. Like...

... of happiness to sociological ones, Norton's reading of Rousseau paves the way for chapter 4's analysis of William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794). Here, Norton demonstrates the extent to which Godwin's necessitarian sociology makes it impossible to imagine a happiness that is not contingent on social...

... . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 . Gellner , Ernest . Nations and Nationalism . Oxford: Blackwell, 1983 . Godwin , William . “Of History and Romance.” Appendix 4. Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams . Ed. Maurice Hindle. New York: Penguin, 1988 : 359 –73...

... Godwin's Caleb Williams, Shelley's The Last Man, and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde coalesce around an "abject male"-as well as futile male-male relations-the enervation of which signals "the end of love" and, by extension, "the end of hstory" (120). Pushing against the limits...

.... She first links the origins of the English novel to what she calls “the fantasy of exposure” (110), finding in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela the emergence in literature of a self that does not have to be what it appears on the surface. Because the self one...

...; Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer; and Godwin's Caleb Williams. Part N (chapters 14 and 15) offers impressively original interpretations of landscapes in Radcliffe's The MARC REDFIELD I GOTHIC CONSCIOUSNESS ItaIiun and of childhood and gothic emplotment in Shelley's...

... of marriage, which neither he nor Rosamond is prepared to sustain. I see the Garths as Eliot's deliberate contrast of another kind of couple: one who can experience a sudden bad movement and be strained but not fatally fractured. When Caleb's too-generous underwriting of Fred Vincy's debt results in the loss...