The complete online text of Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin.

William Godwin was a controversial British thinker and philosopher whose radical and anarchistic beliefs reflected the idea that all monarchies were "unavoidably corrupt" and that no person should have power over another. He objected to most social insti...

The English political theorist and writer William Godwin (1756-1836) was a libertarian anarchist and utopian proponent of a natural, rational, secular society. William Godwin, son of an Independent minister, was born on March 3, 1756, at Wisbeck, Cambrid...

Over a writing life of more than fifty years William Godwin produced a huge body of work, including histories, biographies, pamphlets, treatises, memoirs, plays, children's books, essays, and novels. His reputation, however, has always rested on two work...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. By Joad Raymond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 407. Joad Raymond's Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain examines the patterns of pamphlet production and circulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, situating...

Alexandra Halasz, (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 17). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 240 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-58209-1. This original and ingenious study makes a substantial contribution to current discussions of early modern cultural change. Focusing on the relatively neglected...