02231cam a2200265 i 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059050002300067100002500090245012300115260003500238300001900273505001700292520113800309600004401447600004901491650005801540650002401598650005901622650006001681650006601741650006101807650006701868650003001935130305s2013    ncua     b    001 0 eng    a9781469607504  aSDU00aPR878bC385 L 20131 aCayton, Andrew R. L.10aLove in the time of revolution :btransatlantic literary radicalism and historical change, 1793-1818 /cAndrew Cayton.  aCarolina :bChapel Hill,c2013  a351 p. :bill.  aHKBU Library  a"In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft's life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love's place in human society. Literary radicals argued that the cultivation of intense friendship could lead to the renovation of social and political institutions, whereas others maintained that these freethinkers were indulging their own desires with a disregard for stability and higher authority. Through correspondence and  novels, Andrew Cayton finds an ideal lens to view authors, characters, and readers all debating love's power to alter men and women in the world around them.  Cayton argues for Wollstonecraft's and Godwin's enduring influence on fiction published in Great Britain and the United States and explores Mary Godwin Shelley's endeavors to sustain her mother's faith in romantic love as an engine of social change"--10aGodwin, William,d1756-1836xInfluence.10aWollstonecraft, Mary,d1759-1797xInfluence. 0aEnglish fictiony19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aLove in literature. 0aAmerican fictiony19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aLiterature and societyzEnglandxHistoryy19th century. 0aLiterature and societyzUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aPolitics and literaturezEnglandxHistoryy19th century. 0aPolitics and literaturezUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aRadicalism in literature.