Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chronology ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. Godwin’S Radical Moment
7. 1. Godwin’s Calvinist Ghosts: Political Justice and Caleb Williams 25
8. 2. Godwin, Thelwall, and the Means of Progress 59
9. 3. ‘The Press and Danger of the Crowd’: Godwin, Thelwall, and the Counter-Public Sphere 83
10. 4. ‘Awakening the Mind’: William Godwin’s Enquirer 103
11. 5. Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library 125
12. PART II. Godwin’S Experiments with History
13. 6. Oratory and History: Godwin’s History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 149
14. 7. The Disfiguration of Enlightenment: War, Trauma, and the Historical Novel in Godwin’s Mandeville 172
15. 8. ‘This is the dread hour, / That must decide the fate of England!’: Godwin’s St Dunstan 194
16. 9. Heavy Drama 217
17. PART III. Godwin’S Acquaintances
18. 10. The Philosopher and the Moneylender: The Relationship between William Godwin and John King 241
19. 11. Commerce of Luminaries: Eight Letters between William Godwin and Thomas Wedgwood 261
20. Contributors 283
21. Index 287