Mandeville

ISBN-13: 9781554810857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str.

William Godwin

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GodwinAEs Mandeville , published in 1817, was described as his best novel by Shelley, who sent a copy to Byron, and it was recognized by its admirers as a work of unique psychological power. As Shelley wrote in a letter to Godwin, the novelAEs interest is of othat irresistible and overwhelming kind.o Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative proceeds through MandevilleAEs early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at Winchester school, his constant (and not unjustified) paranoia, and his confinement in an asylum. MandevilleAEs final, desperate attempt to prevent his sisterAEs marriage to his enemy ends in tragedy. The historical appendices offer contemporary reviews, material elucidating the novelAEs complex historical background, and contemporary writings on war, madness, and trauma.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
William Godwin: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Historical Timeline for Mandeville

Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England

• Volume I
  Volume II
  Volume III

Appendix A: Godwin, “Fragment of a Romance” (1833)

Appendix B: From Godwin, “Of History and Romance” (1797)

Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews

1. From P.B. Shelley, Letter to Godwin (7 December 1817)
2. From P.B. Shelley, Letter to The Examiner (28 December 1817)
3. From Champion (1817)
4. From [John Gibson Lockhart,] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (December 1817)
5. From an Anonymous Response to Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1818)
6. From The British Review and London Critical Journal (1818)
7. From [James Mackintosh,] The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818)
8. From Jean Cohen, Preface to French translation of Mandeville (1818)

Appendix D: Historical Background: The Commonwealth, Cromwell, the English Revolution, and the Restoration

1. From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28)
2. From John Thelwall, The Tribune (3 June 1795)
3. From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28)
4. From Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time (1724)

Appendix E: Religion and the Politics of Church Government

1. From John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641)
2. From John Milton, The Reason of Church Government (1642)
3. From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28)
4. From Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex (1644)
5. From William Everard, Gerrard Winstanley, et al., The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced (1649)
6. From Encyclopedia Londinensis (1810)
7. From Samuel R. Gardiner, History of the Civil War (1889)
8. From David Hume, “On Parties in Great Britain” (1741)

Appendix F: Ireland

1. From Laurence Echard, The History of England (1720)
2. From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28)
3. From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28)
4. From “Act for the Settlement of Ireland” (1652)
5. From Godwin, “To the People of Ireland” (1786)
6. From Godwin, “Ireland” (25 December 1821)

Appendix G: Extreme Phenomena: Cultural, Physical, and Psychic

1. On War
1. From Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832)
2. On Wounds
1. From The Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences … (1764)
2. From The Works of John Hunter (1835)
3. On Madness, Dissidence, and Trauma
1. From Godwin, “Of the Rebelliousness of Man” (1831)
2. From Philippe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity (1801)
3. From John Ferriar, An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions (1813)
4. The Literature of Power
1. From Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man (1823)
5. The Power of the Negative
1. From G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Nature (1830)
2. From F.W.J. Schelling, Ages of the World (1815)
3. From Friedrich Schelling, Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809)

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