12. William Godwin

(1756-1836)

 

Internet Resources:

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ABREU, John Warren. “Philosophy into Fiction: The Novels of William Godwin.” [GGI: 0608].

ANDERSON, Robert. “‘Ruinous Mixture’: Godwin Enclosure and the Associated Self.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 617-45.

ARNAUD, Pierre. “William Godwin: Caleb Williams: Bibliographie sélective et critique.” [GGI: 0609].

BAKER, Ernest. “Introduction” (pp.i-xxvi). To Ca-leb Williams. London : Routledge, 1904.

BARKER, Gerard A. “Justice to Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0610].

BARKER, Gerard A. “Fernando Falkland’s Fall: Grandison in Disarray.” [GGI: 0611].

BATTILLANA, M. “‘The Castaway,’ Caleb Williams, The Mysteries of Udolpho: The Story Behind the Page.” In Itinari negati momenti della tradizione ingleze e scozzese nel settecento e letterature moderne. [GGII: 0355].

BECKETT, Juliet. “Introduction.” To St. Leon : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century.” [GGI: 0613].

BREWER, William D. The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.

BREWER, William D. "Intrkoduction" (XX). To St. Leon by William Godwin. (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2006).

BROOKS, Van Wyck. “Introduction.” To Caleb Williams. [GGI: 0613A].

BRUHM, Steven. “William Godwin’s Fleetwood: The Epistemology of the Tortured Body.” [GGII: 0356].

BUTLER, Marilyn. “Godwin, Burke, and Caleb Wil-liams.” [GGI: 0614].

CLEMIT, Pamela. The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. [GGII: 0357].

CLEMIT, Pamela. “Introduction” (pp. vii-xxviii). To St. Leon. New York: Oxford , 1994.

CLIFFORD, Gay. “Caleb Williams and Frankenstein: First Person Narrative and ‘Things as They Are.’” [GGI: 0615].

COBB, Joann P. “Godwin’s Novels and Political Justice.” [GGI: 0616].

COHEN, Michael. “Godwin’s Caleb Williams: Showing the Strains in Detective Fiction.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10 (1998): 203-20.

CRONIN, Richard. “Carps and Caleb Williams.” [GGII: 0358].

CRUTTWELL, Patrick. “On Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0617].

DAVIES, Damian Walford. “The Politics of Allusion: Caleb Williams, The Iron Chest, Middlemarch, and the Armoire de Fer.” Review of English Studies 53 (2002): 526-43.

DE PORTE, Michael. “The Consolations of Fiction: Mystery in Caleb Williams.” [GGII: 0359].

DREXLER, Peter. “‘An unconquerable spirit of curiosity’: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams in der vorge-schichte des detektivromans.” [GGI: 0618].

DUCKWORTH, Alistair M. “William Godwin”  (Vol. 39, pp. 204-22). In British Novelists 1660-1800; Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Martin Battestin. Detroit : Gale Research, 1985.

DUMAS, D. Gilbert. “Things As They Were: The Original Ending of Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0619].

EDWARDS, Gavin. “William Godwin’s Foreign Language: Stories and Families in Caleb Williams.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 533-51.

ELDER, T.B. “Change and Development in the Works of William Godwin.” [GGII: 0360].

EVEREST, Kevin and Gavin EDWARDS. “William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: Truth and ‘Things As They Are.’” In Reading, Writing, Revolution: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature. [GGII: 0361].

FAROUK, Marion O. “Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century: Historical Novel or Psychological Study.” In Essays in Honor of William Gallacher. [GGI: 0620].

FISHER, Carl. “The Crowd and the Public in God-win’s Caleb Williams” (pp. 47-68). In Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, ed. Linda Lang-Peralta. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.

FLANDERS, Wallace A. “Godwin and Gothicism: St. Leon.” [GGI: 0622].

FLUDERNIK. Monika. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: The Tarnishing of the Sublime.” ELH 68 (2001): 857-96.

FLUDERNIK. Monika. “Spectacle, Theatre, and Sympathy in Caleb Williams.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 14 (2001): 1-30. 

FLUDERNIK. Monika. “Sympathetic Affect and Artful Deception: Rhetorical Ambivalence in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams” (pp. 81-96). In Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Walter Gobel, Saskia Schabio and Martin Windisch. Trier, Germany : Wissenschaftlicher, 2001.

FURBANK, P.N. “Godwin’s Novels.” [GGI: 0624].

GIRARD, Gaïd. “Maîtres et serviteurs dans Caleb Williams: Passage du temoin et figures double.” In Maître et serviteur dans le monde anglo-américaine des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. [GGII: 0362].

GOLD, Alex Jr. “It’s Only Love: The Politics of Passion in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0625].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “The Gothic Unity of Caleb Williams.” [GGII: 0363].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “The Two Endings of Caleb Williams: Politics and Aesthetics in a Revolutionary Novel.” [GGII: 0364].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. The Politics of Narrative Ideology and Social Change in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams. [GGII: 0365].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Narrative and Ideology in Godwin’s CalebWilliams.” [GGII: 0366].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. William Godwin Reviewed: A Reception History. New York: AMS Press, 2001. A comprehensive collection of reviews of Godwin’s work.

GROSS, Harvey. “The Pursuer and the Pursued: A Study of Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0626].

HAGGERTY, George E. “‘The End of History’: Identity and Dissolution in Apocalyptic Gothic.” The Eighteenth Century 41 (2000): 225-46.

HALE, Dorothy J. “Profits of Altruism: Caleb Williams and Arthur Mervyn.” [GGII: 0367].

HANDWERK, Gary. “Of Caleb’s Guilt and God-win’s Truth: Ideology and Ethics in Caleb Williams.” ELH 60 (1993): 939-60.

HANDWERK, Gary. “History, Trauma, and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination: William Godwin’s Historical Fiction” (pp. 64-85). In Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Gen-re: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837, eds. Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Touches on the Gothicism of St. Leon.

HANDWERK, Gary and A.A. MARKLEY. “Introduction” (pp. 7-38). To Caleb Williams, eds. Gary Handwerk and A.A. Markley. Peterborough , ON: Broadview Press, 2000.

HARVEY, A.D. “The Nightmare of Caleb Wil-liams.” [GGI: 0628].

HERVOUET-FARRAR, Isabelle. “William Godwin, Caleb Williams” (130-39). In Le Roman noir anglais dit go-thique, ed. Max Duperray. Paris : Ellipses, 2000.

HINDLE, Maurice. “William Godwin’s ‘Caleb Wil-liams’: A Critical Edition (Volumes I and II).” [GGII: 03-68].

HINDLE, Maurice. “Introduction” (pp. ix-xxxix). To Things As The Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK : Penguin Books, 19-88.

HOGLE, Jerrold D. “The Texture of the Self in God-win’s Things As They Are.” [GGI: 0630].

HORROCKS, Ingrid. "More Than a Gravestone: Caleb Williams, Udolpho, and the Politics of the Gothic." Studies in the Novel 39 (2007): 31-47.

HUGHES, Dean T. “Romance and Psychological Realism in William Godwin’s Novels.” [GGI: 0631].

HUGHES, Dean T. Romance and Psychological Realism in William Godwin’s Novels. [GGI: 0632].

JASPER, David. “William Godwin (1756-1836)” (pp. 119-20). In A Handbook to English Romanticism, eds. Jean Raimond and J.R. Watson. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.

JUROE, James G. “St. Leon : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin: A Critical and Annotated Edition.” [GGI: 0633].

KAUFMAN, Robert. “The Sublime as Super-genre of the Modern, or Hamlet in Revolution: Caleb Williams and his Problems.” Studies in Romanticism 36:4 (1997): 541-74.

KELLY, Gary. “History and Fiction: Bethlem Gabor in Godwin’s St. Leon.” [GGI: 0634].

KELLY, Gary. The English Jacobin Novel (1780-1805). [GGI: 0635].

KELLY, Gary. “Convention and Criticism in William Godwin’s Early Novels.” [GGII: 0369].

KITTEL, Harald. “Revolutionare formen perspektiv-ischen erzählens in eimem quasi-autobiographischen ich-roman William Godwins Caleb Williams.” In Fruhe formen mehrperspektivsichen erzählens von der Edda bis Flaubert. [GGII: 0370].

KLANCHER, John. “Godwin and the Genre Reformers” (pp. 21-38). (pp. 64-85). In Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837, eds. Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

KLAUS, H. Gustav. “William Godwin’s Things As They Are: Sozialgeschichte im roman.” [GGII: 0371].

KROPF, C.R. “Caleb Williams and the Attack on Romance.” [GGI: 0637].

LAMOINE, Georges. “Caleb Williams, le mythe de Faust, et l‘intention morale.” [GGI: 0638].

LANG, Hans-Joachim. “Caleb Williams as a Political Allegory” In Literatur als kritik des lebens. [GGI: 0639].

LÉVY, Ellen. “The Philosophical Gothic of St. Leon.” Caliban 33 (1996): 51-62.

LURIA, Gina. “Introduction.” To St. Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. [GGII: 0372].

MAERTZ, Gregory. “Family Resemblances: Intertextual Dialogue between Father and Daughter Novelists in Godwin’s St. Leon and Shelley’s Frankenstein.” University of Mississippi Studies in English (1993-1995): 11-12, 303-20.

MAGNIER, Mireille. “Saint Leon: Alchemiste et philanthrope.” [GGII: 0373].

MARSHALL, Bridget M. "Narrative Justice: The Gothic and the Law in Anglo-America, 1790-1860." Dissertation Abstracts International 65:11 (2005): 4199 (University of Massacusetts, Amherst).

MARSHALL, Peter. William Godwin. [GGII: 0374].

MARSHALL, William H. “Caleb Williams and The Cenci.” [GGI: 0640].

MAY, Marilyn. “Publish and Perish: William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and the Public Appetite for Scandal.” [GGII: 0375].

MC CELVEY, George Edward III. “William Godwin’s Novels: Theme and Craft.” [GGI: 0641].

MC CRACKEN, David. “Godwin’s Caleb Williams: A Fictional Rebuttal of Burke.” [GGI: 0642].

MC CRACKEN, David. “Godwin’s Literary Theory: The Alliance Between Fiction and Political Philosophy.” [GGI: 0643].

MC CRACKEN, David. “Introduction.” To Caleb Williams; or, Things As They Are. [GGI: 0644].

MC KINLEY, Virginia S.G. “Rendering Up ‘The Tale of What We Are’: Gothic Narrative Methods in Selected Novels of Godwin, Brown, and Shelley.” [GGII: 0376].

MEYER, Johannes. William Godwins romane: Ein Beitrag zur geschichte des englischen romans. [GGI: 0645].

MILLER, Jacqueline T. “The Imperfect Tale: Articulation, Rhetoric, and Self in Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0646].

MYERS, Mitzi. “Godwin’s Changing Conception of Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0647].

PALACIO, Jean de. William Godwin et son monde interieur. [GGI: 0648].

PAULEY, Benjamin Francis. "The Common Class of Men: Law and the Lay Reader in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International 65:5 (2004): 1796 (Northwestern University).

PESTA, John. “Caleb Williams: A Tragedy of Wasted Love.” [GGI: 0649].

PHILP, Mark, ed. The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin. 8 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1992. Vol. 3 is Caleb Williams. Vol. 4 is St. Leon.

POLLIN, Burton. Godwin Criticism: A Synoptic Bibliography. [GGI: 0652].

RAJAN, Tilottama. “Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel.” [GGII: 0377].

RIDLEY, Glynnis. “Injustice in the Works of Godwin and Wollstonecraft” (pp. 69-88). In Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, ed. Linda Lang-Peralta. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.

RIZZO, Betty. “The Gothic Caleb Williams.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1387-89.

ROBERTS, Mary E. “The Development of the Rosicrucian Novel from Godwin to Bulwer-Lytton.” [GGII: 0378].

ROEMER, Donald. “William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: The Idealogue as Novelist.” [GGI: 0655].

ROEMER, Donald. “The Achievement of Godwin’s Caleb Wil-liams.” [GGI: 0656].

ROGERS, Deborah D. “Things As They Are Not.” [GGI: 0657].

ROTHSTEIN, Eric. “Allusion and Analogy in the Romance of Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0658].

ROTHSTEIN, Eric. “Caleb Williams: I. History into Romance II. Romance into History III. A Conclusion in which Everything and Nothing is Concluded.” In Systems of Order and Inquiry in Late Eighteenth Century Fiction. [GGI: 0659].

SCHEIBER, Andrew. “Falkland’s Story: Caleb Williams’ Other Voice.” [GGII: 0380].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. “The Novels of William Godwin and Those of his Contemporaries.” [GGI: 0660].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. “From Mind to Society: Caleb Williams as a Psychological Novel.” [GGI: 0661].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. The Novels of William Godwin and Those of His Contemporaries. [GGI: 0662].

SCHIER, Donald. “A Contemporary French Critique of Caleb Williams.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 47 (19-73): 412-48.

SHERBURN, George. “Introduction.” To Caleb Williams; or, Things As They Are. [GGI: 0663].

SHERBURN, George. “Godwin’s Later Novels.” [GGI: 0664].

SIMMS, Karl M. “Caleb Williams’ Godwin: Things As They Are Written.” [GGII: 0381].

SMITH, Elton Edward and Esther Greenwell SMITH. William Godwin. [GGI: 0665].

SMITH, Ken Edward. “William Godwin: Social Critique in Caleb Williams.” [GGII: 0382].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “GODWIN, William” (pp. 232-33). In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, and Ghost Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit and New York: St. James Press, 1998.

STAMPER, Rexford. “Caleb Williams: The Bondage of Truth.” [GGI: 0665A].

STAUFFER, Andrew. “Godwin, Provocation, and the Plot of Anger.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 579-97.

STEINMAN, Lisa M. “Transatlantic Cultures: Godwin, Brown, and Mary Shelley.” Wordsworth Circle 32 (2001): 126-30.

STONE, Edward. “‘Caleb Williams’ and ‘Martin Faber.’” [GGII: 0383].

STORCH, Rudolf F. “Metaphors of Private Guilt and Social Rebellion in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” [GGI: 0666].

THOMPSON, James. “Surveillance in William God-win’s Caleb Williams.” In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/ Transgression. [GGII: 0384].

THOMSON, Douglass H. “William Godwin” (pp. 125-32). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

TYSDAHL, B.J. William Godwin as Novelist. [GGI: 0667].

UPHAUS, Robert. “Godwin’s Epoch of the Mind.” [GGI: 0668].

WALSH, Cheryl. “Truth, Prejudice, and the Power of Narrative in Caleb Williams.” English Language Notes 35 (1998): 22-38.

WALTON, James. “‘Mad Feary Father’: Caleb Williams and the Novel Form.” [GGI: 0669].

WARREN, Leland E. “Caleb Williams and the ‘Fall’ into Writing.” [GGII: 0385].

WEHRS, Donald R. “Rhetoric, History, Rebellion: Caleb Williams and the Subversion of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” [GGII: 0386].

WILSON, Angus. “The Novels of William Godwin.” [GGI: 0670].

WOODCOCK, George.  “Things As  They  Might  Be:  Notes  on  the  Novels  of William  Godwin.”  [GGI:  0671].