Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 1

Godwin, Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by their Contemporaries
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-138-75451-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 860 g

This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clemit, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements -- Note -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Copy Texts -- 1. Hamilton, Elizabeth, Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah -- 2. Hays, Mary, Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- 3. [Fenwick, John], ‘Mr Godwin’, in Public Characters of 1799-1800 -- 4. Austin, William, Letters from Lon don -- 5. Dunlap, William, Memoirs of George Fred. Cooke, Esq. 3 -- 6. Hazlitt, William, ‘On the English Novelists’, in Lectures on the English Comic Writers 3 -- 7. [Hazlitt, William], ‘William Godwin’, in The Spirit of the Age ' -- 8. Hazlitt, William, Conversations of James North cote, Esq., R.A. -- 9. Mackenzie, Sir G. S., Illustrations of Phrenology -- 10. Lamb, Charles, ‘The Old Actors’ -- 11. [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft], ‘Memoirs of William Godwin’ -- 12. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘Life of William Godwin’ -- 13. [Maginn, William], ‘Gallery of Literary Portraits, No. LIII: William Godwin, Esq.’ -- 14. Gerrald, Joseph, The Trial of Joseph Gerrald -- 15. De Quincey, Thomas, ‘Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater’ -- 16. Lockhart, John Gibson, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Part. -- 17. [Smith, Horace], ‘A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance' -- 18. Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb -- 19. Martineau, Harriet, The History of England -- 20. Martineau, Harriet, Autobiography -- 21. Binns, John, Recollections of the Life of John Finns -- 22. Brightwell, Cecilia Lucy, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie -- 23. Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 24. Lady [Jane] Shelley (ed.), Shelley Memorials -- 25. Redding, Cyrus, Yesterday and To-day -- 26. Robinson, Henry Crabb, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence -- 27. Channing, William Ellery, Correspondence of William Ellery Channing, D. D. and Lucy Aikin -- 28. Owen, Robert Dale, Threading My Way -- 29. Kegan Paul, Charles, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries -- 30. Ticknor, George, Life, Letters, and Journals -- 31. Trelawny, Edward John, Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author -- 32. Froude, James Anthony, Thomas Carlyle -- 33. Blakey, Robert, Memoirs of Dr Robert Blakey -- 34. Wallas, Graham, The Life of Francis Place -- 35. Burr, Aaron, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr -- 36. MacFarlane, Charles, Reminiscences of a Literary Life -- 37. Gisborne, Maria,‘Journal’ -- Editorial Notes Biographical Glossary.