• Home
• Bibliographies
  • A-Z by Author
  • Anthologies of Gothic Literature (selected)
  • American Gothic
  • Canadian Gothic
  • English/Irish/
    Scottish Gothic
  • Female Gothic
  • Gothic Film Criticism
  • Research and Reference Guides
  • Special Subject Areas
• About Us
  • About Dr. Frank
  • About Dr. Davison
  • About Scarecrow Press
  • About the Research Team
• Contact Us
• Links

ABREU, John Warren. “Philosophy into Fiction: The Novels of William Godwin.” Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4263A (City University of New York). [GGI: 0608].

ANDERSON, Emily R. "'I Will Unfold a Tale---!': Narrative, Epistemology, and Caleb Williams." Eighteenth Century Fiction 22.1 (October 2009): 99-114.

ANDERSON, Robert. “‘Ruinous Mixture’: Godwin Enclosure and the Associated Self.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 617-45. [GGIII: 1443]

BAKER, Ernest. Introduction. Caleb Williams. London : Routledge, 1904. i-xxvi. [GGIII: 1445]

BARKER, Gerard A. “Fernando Falkland’s Fall: Grandison in Disarray.” Papers on Language and Literature 16 (1980): 376-386. [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. Eds. Eiulio Marra, M.V. Lorenzoni, E. Pagnelli, M. Battillana. Brescia, Italy: Phideia, 1981. 123-137. [GGII: 0355].

BECKETT, Juliet. Introduction. St. Leon : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century.” Forward by Devendra P. Varma. New York: Arno Press, 1972. [GGI: 0613].

BREWER, William D. The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. [GGIII: 1450]

BREWER, William D. Introduction (XX). To St. Leon by William Godwin. (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2006). [GGIV: 0000]

BROOKS, Van Wyck. Introduction. Caleb Williams. New york: Greenberg, 1926. v-vii. [GGI: 0613A].

BRUHM, Steven. “William Godwin’s Fleetwood: The Epistemology of the Tortured Body.” Eighteenth-Century Life 16 (1992): 25-43. [GGII: 0356].

BUTLER, Marilyn. “Godwin, Burke, and Caleb Williams.” Essays in Criticism 32 (1982): 237-257. [GGI: 0614].

CLEMIT, Pamela. The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993. [GGII: 0357].

CLEMIT, Pamela. Introduction. St. Leon. New York: Oxford , 1994. vii-xxviii. [GGIII: 1455]

COBB, Joann P. “Godwin’s Novels and Political Justice.” Enlightenment Essays 4 (1973): 15-28. [GGI: 0616].

COHEN, Michael. “Godwin’s Caleb Williams: Showing the Strains in Detective Fiction.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10 (1998): 203-20. [GGIII: 1458]

CRUTTWELL, Patrick. “On Caleb Williams.” Hudson Review 11 (1958): 87-95. [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. [GGIII: 1461]

DREXLER, Peter. “‘An unconquerable spirit of curiosity’: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams in der vorge-schichte des detektivromans.” Braunschweiger Anglistsche Arbeiten 7 (1981): 67-89. [GGI: 0618].

DUCKWORTH, Alistair M. “William Godwin.” Vol. 39. British Novelists 1660-1800; Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Martin Battestin. Detroit : Gale Research, 1985. 204-22. [GGIII: 1464]

EDWARDS, Gavin. “William Godwin’s Foreign Language: Stories and Families in Caleb Williams.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 533-51. [GGIII: 1466]

ELDER, T.B. “Change and Development in the Works of William Godwin.” Dissertation Abstracts International 43 91982): 1575C (University of Liverpool). [GGII: 0360].

EVEREST, Kevin and Gavin EDWARDS. “William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: Truth and ‘Things As They Are.’” Reading, Writing, Revolution: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature. July 1981. Eds. Francis Barker, Jay Bertein, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iverson, Jennifer Stone. Colchester, UK: University of Essex, 1982: 129-146. [GGII: 0361].

FAROUK, Marion O. “Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century: Historical Novel or Psychological Study.” Essays in Honor of William Gallacher. Ed. Erika Lingner. Berlin: Humboldt UP, 1966. 111-117. [GGI: 0620].

FISHER, Carl. “The Crowd and the Public in God-win’s Caleb Williams.” Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, ed. Linda Lang-Peralta. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. 47-68. [GGIII: 1470]

FLANDERS, Wallace A. “Godwin and Gothicism: St. Leon.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 8 (1967): 533-545. [GGI: 0622].

FLUDERNIK. Monika. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: The Tarnishing of the Sublime.” ELH 68 (2001): 857-96. [GGIII: 1472]

FLUDERNIK. Monika. “Spectacle, Theatre, and Sympathy in Caleb Williams.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 14 (2001): 1-30.  [GGIII: 1473]

FLUDERNIK. Monika. “Sympathetic Affect and Artful Deception: Rhetorical Ambivalence in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Walter Gobel, Saskia Schabio and Martin Windisch. Trier, Germany : Wissenschaftlicher, 2001. 81-96. [GGIII: 1474]

FURBANK, P.N. “Godwin’s Novels.” Essays in Criticism 5 (1955): 214-228. [GGI: 0624].

GIRARD, Gaïd. “Maîtres et serviteurs dans Caleb Williams: Passage du temoin et figures double.” Maître et serviteur dans le monde anglo-américaine des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Actes du Colloque 1985. Paris: Didier, 1986: 197-209. [GGII: 0362].

GOLD, Alex Jr. “It’s Only Love: The Politics of Passion in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities 19 (1977): 135-160. [GGI: 0625].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “The Gothic Unity of Caleb Williams.” Papers on Language and Literature 20 (1984): 47-59. [GGII: 0363].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “The Two Endings of Caleb Williams: Politics and Aesthetics in a Revolutionary Novel.” Studies on Voltaire and the the Eighteenth Century 265 (1989): 1238. [GGII: 0364].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. The Politics of Narrative Ideology and Social Change in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams. New york: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0365].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Narrative and Ideology in Godwin’s CalebWilliams.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 2 (1990): 215-228. [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. [GGIII: 1482]

GROSS, Harvey. “The Pursuer and the Pursued: A Study of Caleb Williams.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 1 (1959): 401-411. [GGI: 0626].

HAGGERTY, George E. “‘The End of History’: Identity and Dissolution in Apocalyptic Gothic.” The Eighteenth Century 41 (2000): 225-46. [GGIII: 1484]

HANDWERK, Gary. “Of Caleb’s Guilt and God-win’s Truth: Ideology and Ethics in Caleb Williams.” ELH 60 (1993): 939-60. [GGIII: 1486]

HANDWERK, Gary and A.A. MARKLEY. Introduction. Caleb Williams, eds. Gary Handwerk and A.A. Markley. Peterborough , ON: Broadview Press, 2000. 7-38. [GGIII: 1488]

HERVOUET-FARRAR, Isabelle. “William Godwin, Caleb Williams.” Le Roman noir anglais dit go-thique. Ed. Max Duperray. Paris : Ellipses, 2000. 130-39. [GGIII: 1490]

HINDLE, Maurice. Introduction. Things As The Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK : Penguin Books, 19-88. ix-xxxix. [GGIII: 1492]

HOGLE, Jerrold D. “The Texture of the Self in God-win’s Things As They Are.”Boundary 7.2 (1979): 261-281.[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. [GGIV: 0000]

HUGHES, Dean T. “Romance and Psychological Realism in William Godwin’s Novels.” Dissertation Abstracts International 33 (1972): 2330A (University of Washington). [GGI: 0631].

HUGHES, Dean T. Romance and Psychological Realism in William Godwin’s Novels. New York: Arno Press, 1980. [GGI: 0632].

JASPER, David. “William Godwin (1756-1836).” A Handbook to English Romanticism, eds. Jean Raimond and J.R. Watson. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992. 119-20. [GGIII: 1496]

JUROE, James G. “St. Leon : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin: A Critical and Annotated Edition.” Dissertation Abstracts International 33 (1972): 2330A (University of Washington). [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. [GGIII: 1498]

KELLY, Gary. “History and Fiction: Bethlem Gabor in Godwin’s St. Leon.” English Language Notes 14 (1976): 117-120. [GGI: 0634].

KELLY, Gary. The English Jacobin Novel (1780-1805). London: Oxford UP, 1976. [GGI: 0635].

KELLY, Gary. “Convention and Criticism in William Godwin’s Early Novels.” Keats-Shelley Journal 33 (1984): 52-69. [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. Eds. Armin Paul Frank, Ulrich Molk. Berlin: Schmidt, 1991. 34-53. [GGII: 0370].

KLANCHER, John. “Godwin and the Genre Reformers.” Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837. Eds. Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 21-38, 64-85. [GGIII: 1503]

KROPF, C.R. “Caleb Williams and the Attack on Romance.” Studies in the Novel 8 (1976): 81-87. [GGI: 0637].

LAMOINE, Georges. “Caleb Williams, le mythe de Faust, et l‘intention morale.” Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines de XVIIe et XVIIe Siècles 9 (1979): 91-110. [GGI: 0638].

LANG, Hans-Joachim. “Caleb Williams as a Political Allegory” In Literatur als kritik des lebens. Heidelberg, W. Germany: Quelle und Meyer, 1975. 148-166. [GGI: 0639].

LÉVY, Ellen. “The Philosophical Gothic of St. Leon.” Caliban 33 (1996): 51-62. [GGIII: 1508]

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. [GGIII: 1510]

MAGNIER, Mireille. “Saint Leon: Alchemiste et philanthrope.” Mythes, Croyances, et Religions dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon 9 (1991): 93-102. [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. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1984. [GGII: 0374].

MARSHALL, William H. “Caleb Williams and The Cenci.” Notes and Queries 7 (1960): 260-263. [GGI: 0640].

MAY, Marilyn. “Publish and Perish: William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and the Public Appetite for Scandal.” Papers on language and Literature 26 (1990): 489-512. [GGII: 0375].

MC CELVEY, George Edward III. “William Godwin’s Novels: Theme and Craft.” Dissertation Abstracts 25 (1964): 1215-1216 (Duke University). [GGI: 0641].

MC CRACKEN, David. “Godwin’s Caleb Williams: A Fictional Rebuttal of Burke.” Studies in burke and his Time 11 (1969-1970): 1442-1452. [GGI: 0642].

MC CRACKEN, David. “Godwin’s Literary Theory: The Alliance Between Fiction and Political Philosophy.” Philological Quarterly 49 (1970): 1442-1452. [GGI: 0643].

MC CRACKEN, David. Introduction. Caleb Williams; or, Things As They Are. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977. vii-xxii. [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.” Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 2597A (Michigan State University). [GGII: 0376].

MEYER, Johannes. William Godwins romane: Ein Beitrag zur geschichte des englischen romans. Weida, Germany: Thomas und Hubert, 1906. [GGI: 0645].

MILLER, Jacqueline T. “The Imperfect Tale: Articulation, Rhetoric, and Self in Caleb Williams.” Criticism 20 (1978): 366-382. [GGI: 0646].

MYERS, Mitzi. “Godwin’s Changing Conception of Caleb Williams.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 12 (1972): 591-628. [GGI: 0647].

PALACIO, Jean de. William Godwin et son monde interieur. Lille, France: Presse Univeritaire de liLLE, 1980. [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). [GGIV: 0000]

PESTA, John. “Caleb Williams: A Tragedy of Wasted Love.” Tennessee Studies in Literature 16 (1971): 67-76. [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. [GGIII: 1525]

POLLIN, Burton. Godwin Criticism: A Synoptic Bibliography. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1967. [GGI: 0652].

RAJAN, Tilottama. “Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel.” Studies inRomanticism 27 (1988): 221-251. [GGII: 0377].

RICHARDS, Cynthia. "The Body of her Work, the Work of her Body: Accounting for the Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21.4 (2009): 565-92.

RIDLEY, Glynnis. “Injustice in the Works of Godwin and Wollstonecraft.” Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, ed. Linda Lang-Peralta. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. 69-88. [GGIII: 1528]

RIZZO, Betty. “The Gothic Caleb Williams.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1387-89. [GGIII: 1529]

ROBERTS, Mary E. “The Development of the Rosicrucian Novel from Godwin to Bulwer-Lytton.” Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 260A (Victoria University of manchester, UK). [GGII: 0378].

RODDEN, John. "Godwin's Caleb Williams: 'A Half-Told and Mangled Tale.'" College Literature 36.4 (2009): 119-146.

ROEMER, Donald. “William Godwin’s Caleb Williams: The Idealogue as Novelist.” Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1970): 2705A-2706A (Brandeis University). [GGI: 0655].

ROEMER, Donald. “The Achievement of Godwin’s Caleb Williams: The Proto-Byronic Squire Falkland.” Criticism 18 (1976): 43-56. [GGI: 0656].

ROGERS, Deborah D. “Calleb Williams: 'Things As They Are Not.'” American Notes and Queries 13 (1975): 133. [GGI: 0657].

ROTHSTEIN, Eric. “Allusion and Analogy in the Romance of Caleb Williams.” University of Toronto Quartery 37 (1967): 18-30. [GGI: 0658].

ROTHSTEIN, Eric. “Caleb Williams: I. History into Romance II. Romance into History III. A Conclusion in which Everything and Nothing is Concluded.” Systems of Order and Inquiry in Late Eighteenth Century Fiction. Berkeley, CA: California UP, 1975. 208-242. [GGI: 0659].

SCHEIBER, Andrew. “Falkland’s Story: Caleb Williams’ Other Voice.” Studies in the Novel 17 (1985): 255-266. [GGII: 0380].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. “The Novels of William Godwin and Those of his Contemporaries.” Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1974): 7269A (State University of New York at Stony Brook). [GGI: 0660].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. “From Mind to Society: Caleb Williams as a Psychological Novel.” Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 7 (1977): 115-127. [GGI: 0661].

SCHEUERMANN, Mona. The Novels of William Godwin and Those of His Contemporaries. New york: Arno Press, 1980. [GGI: 0662].

SCHIER, Donald. “A Contemporary French Critique of Caleb Williams.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 47 (19-73): 412-48. [GGIII: 1540]

SHERBURN, George. “Godwin’s Later Novels.” Studies in Romanticism 1 (1962): 65-82. [GGI: 0664].

SIMMS, Karl M. “Caleb Williams’ Godwin: Things As They Are Written.” Studies in Romanticism 26 (1987): 347-363. [GGII: 0381].

SMITH, Elton Edward and Esther Greenwell SMITH. William Godwin. Twayne English Authors Series 27. New york: Twayne, 1965. [GGI: 0665].

SMITH, Ken Edward. “William Godwin: Social Critique in Caleb Williams.” Studies on Voltaire and the the Eighteenth Century 263 (1989): 337-341. [GGII: 0382].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “GODWIN, William.” St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, and Ghost Writers. Ed. David Pringle. Detroit and New York: St. James Press, 1998. 232-33. [GGIII: 1548]

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. [GGIII: 1549]

STORCH, Rudolf F. “Metaphors of Private Guilt and Social Rebellion in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Journal of English Literary History 34 (1967): 188-207. [GGI: 0666].

THOMPSON, James. “Surveillance in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/ Transgression. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1989. 173-198. [GGII: 0384].

THOMSON, Douglass H. “William Godwin.” Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 125-32. [GGIII: 1553]

TYSDAHL, B.J. William Godwin as Novelist. London: Athlone, 1981; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1981. [GGI: 0667].

UPHAUS, Robert. “Godwin’s Epoch of the Mind.” Studies in the Novel 9 (1977): 279-296. [GGI: 0668].

WALSH, Cheryl. “Truth, Prejudice, and the Power of Narrative in Caleb Williams.” English Language Notes 35 (1998): 22-38. [GGIII: 1556]

WARREN, Leland E. “Caleb Williams and the ‘Fall’ into Writing.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of literature 20 (1987): 57-69. [GGII: 0385].

WEHRS, Donald R. “Rhetoric, History, Rebellion: Caleb Williams and the Subversion of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” Studies in English Literature 28 (1988): 497-511. [GGII: 0386].

WESTOVER, Paul. "William Godwin, Literary Tourism, and the Work of Necromanticism." Studies in Romanticism 42.2 (2009): 299-319, 368.

WILSON, Angus. “The Novels of William Godwin.” World Review 28 (1951): 37-40. [GGI: 0670].

WOODCOCK, George. “Things As They Might Be: Notes on the Novels of William Godwin.” Dalhousie Review 54 (1975): 685-697. [GGI:  0671].