{"product_id":"godwin-and-the-book-j-louise-mccray-9781474475778","title":"Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783-1836","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGodwin and the Book\u003c\/em\u003e explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). It offers a fresh reading of Godwin's fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and essays to argue that, throughout his career, he figured books and reading in particular ways in order to defend a set of inherited beliefs about intellectual perfectibility. In the process, it highlights many wider debates that marked out the culture of this period - including disagreements over the physiology of the mind, the ethics of novel-reading, and the social consequences of death - and considers how these debates were intertwined with the formal development of British prose in the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Louise McCray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474475779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474475778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d","brand":"J. Louise McCray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075710939391,"sku":"9781474475778","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75a4a1fc-e558-4cc1-b3d8-1f9e62e7f9fb.jpg?v=1685460986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/godwin-and-the-book-j-louise-mccray-9781474475778","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}