...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...

... . “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...

... Historicism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Clemit , Pamela . The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993 . Davis , Leith . Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707–1830...

... . Fletcher , Andrew . An account of a conversation concerning a right regulation of governments, for the common good of mankind; in a letter to the Marquess of Montrose, the Earls of Rothes, Roxburgh, and Haddington… . London: A. Baldwin, 1704 . Godwin , William . An Enquiry Concerning Political...

... that the model of social organization is more like a network than a map (82). The fourth chapter, on William Godwin's Caleb Williams , is in my view the most ingenious chapter in the book, though also the chapter at which the book's argumentative through-lines on system failure and novelistic realism begin...

.... The chapter begins with a reflection on William Godwin's "Of History and Romance," a brief NOVEL I SUMMER 2006 unpublished essay wherein Godwin argues that the "writer of romance," rather than the historian, is the source of "true history," for it is in imaginative fiction...

... Letters, and from his Manuscripts before Unpublished . Vol. 1 . Philadelphia: James P. Parker, 1815 . Gardner , Jared . “Alien Nation: Edgar Huntly’s Savage Awakening.” American Literature 66 ( 1994 ): 429 –61. Godwin , William . “Of Histories and Romances.” Things as They Are . 359...

.... Norton Critical Editions Series. New York: Norton, 1973 . Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture . London: Verso, 1995 . Forster , E. M. Aspects of the Novel . New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927 . Godwin , William . St. Leon: A Tale...

.... Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994 . Garside , Peter , James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, gen. eds. The English Novel 1770–1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles . 2 vols . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 . Godwin , William . Preface. Fleetwood; Or, The New...

... . 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...

... epistemology to ethics. Examining narrative fictions by Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin, and Mary Hays, Norton shows how even the most conspicuous explorations of selfhood and perception pose fundamentally ethical questions. How do we bear external evils? How, like...

... . Christopherson Bill . The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic . Athens : U of Georgia P , 1993 . Clemit Pamela . The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley . New York : Oxford UP , 1993 . Cohen Matt...

... and again in nineteenth-century accounts of the houses of the poor like George Godwin's London Shadows , writers encourage their readers to step across thresholds, peer around corners, descend or ascend staircases (4). Framed as portals to unfamiliar worlds, these documents demand dynamic engagement. Look...

... 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...

... ownership and action. Here the problem is the obverse—not how to distribute the commons but how to allow for that which must remain common (air, rivers, pollution). In this context, Stout reads Godwin's Caleb Williams as a situation tragedy, in which the simultaneity of human existence is figured...

...; 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...

... Smith and William Godwin, an indicator of a healthy social body, but rather an indicator of its coming demise. "Somaeconomics" "describe[s] the theorization of economic behavior in terms of the emotional and sensual feelings that are both causes and consequences of economic exer- tions" (3...

... . Berkeley: U of California P, 1980 . Galperin , William H. The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993 . Godwin , William . Memoirs of the Author of “The Rights of Woman” Ed. Richard Holmes. New York: Penguin, 1987 . Gombrich , E.H...

... discourse “correlates” with the penitentiary prison envisioned by Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon (157). In William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Bender posits a fascinating development whereby the “utopian anarchist” author, by virtue of his commit- ment to this narrative technique, is unable to sustain his...

.... , and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . New Haven: Yale UP, 1979 . Godwin , William . St Leon . Ed. Pamela Clemit. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994 . Hansen , Mark . “‘Not thus, after all, would life be given’: Technesis...