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The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 3

威廉·戈德温的书信：第三卷

基本信息

批准号：
AH/J00216X/1
负责人：
Matthew Grenby
金额：
$ 4.16万
依托单位：
Newcastle University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ00216X%2F1
关键词：
Letters William Godwin Volume

项目摘要

William Godwin (1756-1836) was one of the leading public intellectuals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: among many other things, a prominent philosopher, novelist, dramatist, historian, educationalist, biographer and publisher. His most famous works - 'An Enquiry concerning Political Justice' (1793) and the novel 'Caleb Williams' (1794) - had a transformative effect on social and political thought and on the development of English fiction. Later and less celebrated writings - and indeed his conversation and correspondence - were enormously influential in a number of other spheres too. He was a pioneering author, publisher and theorist of children's literature; and he engaged in creative dialogue with many of the principal literary figures of his age, notably Coleridge, Hazlitt and the man who would become his son-in-law, Percy Shelley.Godwin's collected letters are for the first time now being published, by Oxford University Press, in a prestigious and authoritative six-volume edition. Volume III will include all the letters Godwin wrote between 1806 and 1815: approximately 338. In biographical terms, the volume will cover the early years of Godwin's marriage to Mary Jane Clairmont, his second wife and business partner. This was a period of financial difficulty, especially since Godwin had a family of five young children to support (including the two daughters of his first wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, and two of Mary Jane's children from previous relationships), and in 1805 Godwin and his wife founded the 'Juvenile Library', a ground-breaking venture in children's publishing. The earliest children's book that has remained continuously in print was published there - Charles and Mary Lamb's 'Tales from Shakespear' (1807). So too were other landmarks of children's literature, including an experimental comic picture-book 'The Queen of Hearts' (1805), and 'The Swiss Family Robinson' (1814). Godwin himself wrote 'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1805) and 'The Pantheon, or Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome' (1806). Taken together with his 'Bible Stories' (1802), these represent a complete repackaging of children's traditional reading materials, revised according to Godwin's rational but strikingly modern pedagogical ideas. His letters document the development of Godwin's educational thinking, but also shed rare light on the logistics of publishing in the period. Revealing the minutiae of the business, the letters will be hugely important for scholars of publishing history, and most especially for those interested in the development of children's literature as an independent sector of print culture.Letters towards the end of Volume III trace the implosion of Godwin's family. Godwin began corresponding with his would-be disciple Shelley in 1812, further expounding his political ideas and seeking to moderate Shelley's radicalism. In 1814, Shelley eloped with Godwin's daughter Mary (later author of 'Frankenstein'). Godwin's stepdaughter Jane (Claire) Clairmont, later to be Lord Byron's lover, went with them. By 1816, another stepdaughter, Fanny, had committed suicide, as had Shelley's first wife, allowing Shelley and Mary to marry, and thus Godwin's reconciliation with him.Godwin's letters will show us many things: about publishing, education, sociability, patronage, intellectual and cultural life and personal relationships in the Romantic-era. They demonstrate that he remained at the centre of a complex and ever-changing network of many of the most important writers, artists and thinkers working both in Britain and abroad. His letters engage with new ideas and are often the site of intellectual argument, as well as personal controversies. They demonstrate that Godwin's commitment to political and social reform was by no means extinguished after the widespread attacks on him in the 1790s. The letters will be a remarkable source for a great many researchers working on a huge range of subjects.

威廉·戈德温（William Godwin，1756-1836）是18世纪末19世纪初著名的公共知识分子之一，是一位杰出的哲学家、小说家、剧作家、历史学家、教育家、传记作家和出版商。他最著名的作品--《政治正义探究》（1793年）和小说《凯莱布威廉姆斯》（1794年）--对社会和政治思想以及英国小说的发展产生了变革性的影响。后来不太出名的作品--实际上还有他的谈话和信件--在其他一些领域也产生了巨大的影响。他是儿童文学的先驱作家、出版商和理论家;他与他那个时代的许多主要文学人物进行了创造性的对话，特别是柯勒律治、黑兹利特和后来成为他女婿的人，珀西雪莱。戈德温的书信集现在第一次由牛津大学出版社出版，有声望和权威性的六卷本。第三卷将包括戈德温在1806年至1815年间写的所有信件：大约338封。在传记方面，这本书将涵盖戈德温与他的第二任妻子和商业伙伴玛丽简克莱蒙结婚的最初几年。这是一个财政困难的时期，特别是因为戈德温有一个五个年幼的孩子的家庭要支持（包括他的第一任妻子玛丽沃斯通克拉夫特的两个女儿，以及玛丽简以前的关系的两个孩子），并在1805年戈德温和他的妻子成立了“少年图书馆”，这是儿童出版的一个开创性的企业。最早的儿童书籍，一直在印刷出版，是在那里-查尔斯和玛丽羔羊的“故事，从马布里”（1807年）。儿童文学的其他里程碑也是如此，包括一本实验性的漫画书《红心皇后》（1805）和《瑞士家庭罗宾逊》（1814）。戈德温自己写了《古代和现代寓言》（1805年）和《万神殿，或希腊和罗马诸神的古代史》（1806年）。与他的《圣经故事》（1802）一起，这些代表了对儿童传统阅读材料的完全重新包装，根据戈德温理性但惊人的现代教育思想进行了修订。他的信件记录了戈德温教育思想的发展，但也揭示了这一时期出版业的后勤工作。这些信件揭示了这一行业的细节，对于研究出版史的学者，尤其是那些对儿童文学作为印刷文化的一个独立部门的发展感兴趣的人来说，将是非常重要的。第三卷结尾的信件追溯了戈德温家族的内爆。戈德温于1812年开始与他未来的弟子雪莱通信，进一步阐述他的政治思想，并寻求缓和雪莱的激进主义。1814年，雪莱与戈德温的女儿玛丽（后来的《弗兰肯斯坦》的作者）私奔。戈德温的继女简（克莱尔）克莱蒙，后来成为拜伦勋爵的情人，和他们一起去了。到1816年，另一个继女范妮自杀了，雪莱的第一任妻子也自杀了，允许雪莱和玛丽结婚，从而戈德温与他和解。戈德温的信件将向我们展示很多事情：关于出版、教育、社交能力、赞助、浪漫时代的知识和文化生活以及个人关系。他们证明，他仍然是一个复杂而不断变化的网络的中心，这个网络由许多在英国和国外工作的最重要的作家，艺术家和思想家组成。他的信件涉及新的思想，经常是知识分子争论的场所，也是个人争议的场所。他们表明，戈德温对政治和社会改革的承诺并没有在18世纪90年代对他的广泛攻击后消失。这些信件将是一个了不起的来源，为大量的研究人员工作的一个巨大的范围内的主题。