Godwin and the Book

Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era Britain Explores the literary figuration of media technology and its useOffers a fresh reading of Godwin’s corpus, which involves an unusual claim about its fundamental consistency across time and generic boundariesExamines major controversies of the period, including: the physiology of the mind; the ethics of novel-reading; practical reading advice; the nature of truth; the nature of afterlifeDraws a