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| Name: |
William Godwin | | Birth Date: |
March 3, 1756 | | Death Date: |
April 7, 1836 | | Place of Birth: |
Wisbeck, Cambridgeshire, England | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, scholar |
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Biography of William Godwin
627 words, approx. 2 pages
 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...
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Biography of William Godwin
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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 minister, was born on March 3, 1756, at Wisbeck,...
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Biography of William Godwin
9,958 words, approx. 33 pages
 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...



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William Godwin Quotes
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 William Godwin ( 1756-03-03 – 1836-04-07 ), was a leader of the English Jacobin movement, a political philosopher, educationalist, novelist, historian and biographer. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft , father of Mary Shelley and...


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Godwin, William
91 words, approx. 1 pages (born March 3, 1756, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 7, 1836, London) British writer. He became a Presbyterian minister but soon lost his faith. His Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) captivated Samuel Taylor...
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William Godwin - (1756 - 1836) Summary
13,410 words, approx. 45 pages William Godwin - (1756 - 1836) English philosopher, novelist, essayist, historian, playwright, and biographer. Although known primarily for his philosophical works and his influence on English Romantic writers, Godwin is also remembered for his...
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Godwin, William (1756–1836) Summary
3,776 words, approx. 13 pages 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 educated at Hoxton, one of the dissenting colleges that...
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William Godwin Information
2,678 words, approx. 9 pages
 William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism.[1] Godwin...



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 Studies in Romanticism
Godwin, Provocation, and the Plot of Anger.(William Godwin)
12/22/2000: 8,541 words, approx. 29 pages I was angry with my friend I told my wrath my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not my wrath did grow --Blake, "A Poison Tree" WILLIAM BLAKE'S "A POISON TREE" SUGGESTS THAT ACTING...
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 Studies in Romanticism
William Godwin and the ars rhetorica.
09/22/2002: 14,308 words, approx. 48 pages THERE IS A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A NATION'S POLITICAL institutions and the value it places on oratory. Some form of this maxim would have appeared a commonplace remark (and a locus of argument) throughout the eighteenth century, and within the context of political...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Caroline Reitz
10,562 words, approx. 35 pages
 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 regarded as the earliest detective novel, reflects the crisis of Britain's imperialist culture.


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