Godwin and the Book
Imagining Media, 1783-1836
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756–1836). It offers a fresh reading of Godwin’s fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and essays to argue that, throughout his career, he figured books and reading in particular ways in order to defend a set of inherited beliefs about intellectual perfectibility. In the process, it highlights many wider debates that marked out the culture of this period – including disagreements over the physiology of the mind, the ethics of novel-reading, and the social consequences of death – and considers how these debates were intertwined with the formal development of British prose in the period.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2021-04-13
- Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
- Vikt474 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
- Antal sidor216
- FörlagEdinburgh University Press
- ISBN9781474475761