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29%OFFWilliam Godwin - Mandeville - 9781554810857 - V9781554810857
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Mandeville

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Description for Mandeville Paperback. Editor(s): Rajan, Tilottama. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Godwin's Mandeville, published in 1817, was described as his best novel by Shelley, who sent a copy to Byron, and it was recognized by its admirers as a work of unique psychological power. As Shelley wrote in a letter to Godwin, the novel's interest is of that irresistible and overwhelming kind. Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative proceeds through Mandeville's early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Series
Broadview Editions
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781554810857
SKU
V9781554810857
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About William Godwin
William Godwin (1756-1836) was an English novelist, critic, and political philosopher. Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor of English at Western University, Canada. She is the editor of the Broadview Edition of Mary Shelley's Valperga.

Reviews for Mandeville
Godwin's most harrowing novel and trenchant analysis of the stalling of political justice by personal trauma, Mandeville probes the importance of pathology to history. Set in the period of the English Revolution, Mandeville narrates Charles Mandeville's wounding by history and the wounding of the capacity for progress. Expertly situated and annotated by Godwin's most comprehensive reader, Tilottama Rajan's edition ... Read more

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