Eliza O’Brien - New Approaches to William Godwin: Forms, Fears, Futures

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print features work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries whether between periods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it combines efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race, and class. Mobilizing analytical, archival, and digital resources to explore the varied intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law, and science, the series enables a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity.

Editorial Board

Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford, UK

John Bender, Stanford University, USA

Alan Bewell, University of Toronto, Canada

Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge, UK

Aaron Hanlon, Colby College, USA

Devoney Looser, Arizona State University, USA

Saree Makdisi, UCLA, USA

Andrew Piper, McGill University, Canada

Felicity A Nussbaum, UCLA, USA

Janet Todd, University of Cambridge, UK

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This book collection developed from a conference in 2017 at Newcastle University. We would like to thank the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics for funding and conference support. Special thanks to Melanie Birch for her invaluable advice and for helping to plan and run the event. We also gratefully acknowledge the funding support from the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which enabled us to offer travel bursaries to our postgraduate delegates. At Palgrave we thank Camille Davies and Rebecca Hinsley for their assistance with the publication process and their forbearance and special thanks go to Divya Anish and the production team for their support and expertise in the final stages. We thank the editor of Nineteenth-Century Prose, Barry Tharaud, and guest editor Rowland Weston, for their permission to reprint the article Godwins Citations, 17832005: Highest Renown at the Pinnacle of Disfavour by Pamela Clemit and Avner Offer, and the Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive for permission to reproduce two digital images.

Eliza OBrien would like to thank David Stewart for his sincere friendship, and all her dear family: OBriens, Galvins, Ryans, Stewarts. She offers particular thanks to Professor Graham Allen of University College Cork for introducing her to the work of William Godwin.

Helen Stark would like to thank University College London for their support of this project, Michael Rossington for introducing her to Essay on Sepulchres, and Chris Sparks for his unwavering encouragement.

Beatrice Turner would like to thank her fellow editors for their heroic patience, the participants of the original conference for a stimulating and collegial day of discussion, and Philippe for everything else.

Lastly, but by no means least, we collectively thank our contributors for their time and intellectual effort in making the collection a reality, particularly in the final stages of editing, which took place during the Covid-19 pandemic in a period that has been very difficult for very many people.