02378cam a2200301 i 4500 130305s2013 ncua b 001 0 eng 9781469607504 SDU PR878 C385 L 2013 Cayton, Andrew R. L. 212084 Love in the time of revolution : transatlantic literary radicalism and historical change, 1793-1818 / Andrew Cayton. Carolina : Chapel Hill, 2013 351 p. : ill. HKBU Library "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"-- Godwin, William, 1756-1836 Influence. 212085 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Influence. 212086 English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Love in literature. American fiction 19th century History and criticism. 198135 Literature and society England History 19th century. 211042 Literature and society United States History 19th century. Politics and literature England History 19th century. 198905 Politics and literature United States History 19th century. 212087 Radicalism in literature. 212088 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 109824 109824 0 0 lcc 0 PR0878 C385 L2013 0 CGB 282930 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-23 2 0 PR878 C385 L 2013 1000373427 2025-09-23 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-23 GBE