The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin
Edited by: Pamela Clemit, Maurice Hindle and Mark Philp
General Introduction by: Marilyn Butler and Mark Philp
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 007 1: 234x156mm: £550.00/$975.00
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The first complete edition, containing some novels which have never before appeared in scholarly editions, and some manuscript material published for the first time.
William Godwin (1756-1836) was one of the foremost philosophers of his age. The publication of his monumental work on government and individual freedom, Political Justice, made him the chief philosophical exponent of English radicalism. His most famous work of fiction, Caleb Williams, is regarded by many as the first psychological thriller. Both his novels and his philosophical works were a major influence on Thomas Holcroft, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley and on his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Contents
Volume 1
Introduction; Editorial note; Bibliography; Autobiography; Godwin/Shelley Correspondence; Memoirs of Mary Wollstoncraft; Memoir of the Author; Appendix
Volume 2
Damon and Delia; Italian Letters; Imogen
Volume 3
Caleb Williams
Volume 4
St Leon
Volume 5
Fleetwood
Volume 6
Mandeville
Volume 7
Cloudesley
Volume 8
Deloraine
Reviews
‘Thanks to this superb edition, it is now possible to see Godwin more fully than ever before ... Mark Philp, the General Editor, and the contributing editors, Pamela Clemit and Maurice Hindle, deserve all praise for producing an edition of such outstanding quality. It whets the appetite for the forthcoming edition of the philosophical and political writings. In the bicentenary year of Political Justice, Godwin will finally receive the tribute of scholarship already paid (or being paid) to some of his famous contemporaries. At last, he has no further reason for remorse.’
– Seamus Deane, The Times Literary Supplement