TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCray,J.Louise
TI  - Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783-1836 
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
SN  - 9781474475761
AV  - PR4724 
U1  - 823.6 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Books and reading in literature
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - History
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474475785
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474475785
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474475785/original
ER  -