Godwin, William(1756–1836)
William Godwin, English political philosopher, novelist, and essayist, was born at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, where his father was a dissenting minister. He was educ...
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William Godwin - (1756 - 1836)
English philosopher, novelist, essayist, historian, playwright, and biographer.
Although known primarily for his philosophical works and his influence on English Romanti...
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Biography EssayA protean intellectual, William Godwin enjoyed a career that reflects in microcosm the changing face of literature, society, and politics in England from the onset of the French Revolut...
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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 min...
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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 hav...
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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. ...
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It was William Godwin's fate to rise suddenly to fame as a radical philosopher at the end of the eighteenth century and then to plunge almost as rapidly into opprobrium and neglect. Brought to public ...
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For about a decade after the publication of his treatise on philosophical anarchism, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)...
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William Godwin was a philosopher, an educationalist, a moralist, a biographer, a historian, a novelist, and a dramatist. His versatility led William Hazlitt to describe him in Lectures on the English ...
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Although William Godwin is a significant literary figure in his own right, the following essay focuses on the literary collaboration of Godwin and his wife Mary Godwin.William Godwin and his second wi...
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Regarded by some of his contemporaries as a dangerous radical and by others as a prophetic visionary, the anarchist William Godwin had a profound effect on British liberalism and, through his son-in-l...
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In the following essay, Reitz asserts that the detective genre, as exemplified by William Godwin's novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), which is generally rega...
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Godwin, William (1756–1836)
William Godwin - (1756 - 1836)
William Godwin
William Godwin
William Godwin
Critical Essay by Caroline Reitz
