Fleetwood

, by Markley, Arnold A.; Handwerk, Gary; Godwin, William

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ISBN: 9781551112329 | 1551112329
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Copyright: 10/1/2000

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Fleetwood is a pivotal novel of early English Romanticism and a powerful critique of the Romantic emotionalism being spread across Europe in Rousseau's name. Godwin's "new man of feeling" chronicles the impact of his "natural" education in the wilds of Wales, and his behavior allows Godwin to draw attention to an array of contemporary social issues. Godwin attacks the inhumanity of the early factory system, and indicts British society for its patriarchal inequities. His portrayal of Fleetwood's obsessive and devastating jealousy contributed significantly to the development of psychological realism in English fiction. As essential historical background, the editors provide reviews, and excerpts from Rousseau's writing and from Godwin's other works.

Acknowledgments

(1)

Introduction

(31)

A Brief Chronology

(3)

William Godwin

A Note on the Text

(4)

Preface to the First Edition (1805)

(4)

Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling

(397)

Appendix A: Foundations of the Novel

1. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798)

425

(4)

William Godwin

i. ``Of Political Imposture''

425

(1)

ii. ``Of Cooperation, Cohabitation, and Marriage''

426

(3)

2. The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays (1797)

429

(9)

William Godwin

i. ``Of Public and Private Education''

429

(1)

ii. ``Of Deception and Frankness''

430

(1)

iii. ``Of the Obtaining of Confidence''

431

(1)

iv. ``Of Choice in Reading''

432

(4)

v. ``Of Difference in Opinion''

436

(2)

3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

438

(10)

Mary Wollstonecraft

i. ``The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed''

438

(1)

ii. ``Observations On the State Of Degradation To Which Woman is Reduced By Various Causes''

439

(1)

iii. ``Animadversions On Some Of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt''

440

(4)

iv. ``The Effect Which An Early Association Of Ideas has Upon The Character''

444

(2)

v. ``On National Education''

446

(1)

vi. ``Some Instances Of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections On the Moral Improvement That A Revolution In Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce''

447

(1)

Appendix B: The Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

448

(23)

1. Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise (1761), translated

448

(11)

Gray Handwerk

2. Emile, or on Education (1762), translated

459

(12)

Grace Roosevelt

Appendix C: The Novel of Sensibility

471

(14)

1.A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Mr. Yorick (1768)

471

(4)

Laurence Sterne

2. The Man of Feeling (1771)

475

(5)

Henry Mackenzie

3. Julia de Roubign'e (1777)

480

(5)

Henry Mackenzie

Appendix D: The English Jacobin Novel and the Lot of Women

485

(16)

1. A Simple Story (1791)

485

(5)

Elizabeth Inchbald

2. The Wrong of Woman: or, Maria (1798)

490

(6)

Mary Wollstonecraft

3. The Victim of Prejudice (1799)

496

(5)

Mary Hays

Appendix E: The Resonance of Renaissance Drama

501

(7)

1. A Wife for A Moneth (1624)

501

(2)

John Fletcher

2. Don Carlos (1676)

503

(5)

Thomas Otway

Appendix F: The Lure of Switzerland

508

(5)

1. Travels in Switzerland (1778, 1789)

508

(2)

William Coxe

2. History of A Six Weeks' Tour (1817)

510

(3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews

513

(26)

1. Critical Review (April 1805)

513

(5)

2. Edinburgh Review (April 1805)

518

(5)

Walter Scott

3. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (August 1805)

523

(8)

4. British Critic (August 1805)

531

(2)

5. Monthly Review (January 1806)

533

(1)

6. European Magazine and London Review (April 1806)

534

(3)

7. Review of the 1832 edition of Fleetwood, from the Examiner (December 1832)

537

(2)

Select Bibliography

539

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