TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cayton,Andrew R.L.
TI  - Love in the time of revolution: transatlantic literary radicalism and historical change, 1793-1818 
SN  - 9781469607504
AV  - PR878 C385 L 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carolina
PB  - Chapel Hill
KW  - Godwin, William,
KW  - Wollstonecraft, Mary,
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Love in literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Radicalism in literature
N1  - HKBU Library
N2  - "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"--
ER  -