Article: The Politics of Narrative: Ideology and Social Change in Godwin's 'Caleb Williams."

GRAHAM, KEN W. (New York: AMS Press, 1990). 222 pp. $37.50.

When Shelley wrote "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," he may well have had his father-in-law William Godwin (1756-1836) in mind. Graham's book is a contemporary study which makes clear the importance of this little remembered thinker. A failed preacher turned hack writer, Godwin at thirty-seven became a meteor among the luminaries of the late Enlightenment. He blazed out from among the levee en masse of pamphleteers mustered as harbingers of the new epoch, a dawn in which it was "bliss" to be alive. At least that's the way Wordsworth remembered the period from the fall of the ...

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