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Godwin and the Book : Imagining Media, 1783-1836 / J. Louise McCray.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSRPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474475761
  • 9781474475785
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PR4724
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Matter of the Reader: Materialism and Private Judgement -- 2. The Ethics of Novel-Reading: Fiction and Moral Law -- 3. The Discipline of Reading: ‘Enquiry’ and Religious Dissent -- 4. Truth and Social Media: Books and Intellectual Regulation -- 5. Books, Bodies and Monuments: Print and Perfectibility -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era BritainExplores the literary figuration of media technology and its useOffers a fresh reading of Godwin’s corpus, which involves an unusual claim about its fundamental consistency across time and generic boundariesExamines major controversies of the period, including: the physiology of the mind; the ethics of novel-reading; practical reading advice; the nature of truth; the nature of afterlifeDraws attention to the enormous impact of protestant dissent on the literature and philosophy of the Romantic periodGodwin 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Matter of the Reader: Materialism and Private Judgement -- 2. The Ethics of Novel-Reading: Fiction and Moral Law -- 3. The Discipline of Reading: ‘Enquiry’ and Religious Dissent -- 4. Truth and Social Media: Books and Intellectual Regulation -- 5. Books, Bodies and Monuments: Print and Perfectibility -- Bibliography -- Index

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Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era BritainExplores the literary figuration of media technology and its useOffers a fresh reading of Godwin’s corpus, which involves an unusual claim about its fundamental consistency across time and generic boundariesExamines major controversies of the period, including: the physiology of the mind; the ethics of novel-reading; practical reading advice; the nature of truth; the nature of afterlifeDraws attention to the enormous impact of protestant dissent on the literature and philosophy of the Romantic periodGodwin 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.

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In English.

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