New Approaches to William Godwin Forms, Fears, Futures

This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle and on Dissenting intellectual circles, but the present collection considers him closely as an author and thinker on his own terms. The range of texts and topics covered by this collection will be of interest both to scholars familiar with Godwin and those approaching his work for the first time. 

Helen Stark works at University College London, UK. She has published on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron. Her PhD on men of feeling and national identity in Romantic Literature was awarded by Newcastle University, UK, in 2013. 

Beatrice Turner works at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her first monograph, Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and Retrospection 1820-1850, was published in 2017.