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Philp, Mark (2017) Unconventional calling. In: Gilmartin, Kevin, (ed.) Sociable Places : Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 163-182. ISBN 9781107587779
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107587779.008
Abstract
This is a paper about a quintessential mode of sociability in radical circles in the 1790s–visiting and calling on friends and acquaintance, primarily in each other’s homes. It centres on William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher, novelist and literary figure, husband of the now more famous Mary Wollstonecraft and thereby father to the still more famous Mary Shelley. Godwin rose to public prominence in the opening years of the French Revolution with his magnum opus, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), but his career was a major casualty of the backlash against radicalism after 1798.Godwin made and received a lot of visits–hundreds each year. Although scholars have often referred to his carefully kept Diary their use of it has been relatively impressionistic. In this chapter I want to explore more systematically some of the complexities of domestic visiting, drawing on the digital edition of Godwin’s diary.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Godwin, William, 1756-1836, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Mary Shelley, 1797 1851 | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781107587779 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Sociable Places : Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain | ||||||
| Editor: | Gilmartin, Kevin | ||||||
| Official Date: | July 2017 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 269 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 163-182 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781107587779.008 | ||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This material has been published in Sociable Places : Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain edited by Gilmartin, K. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © the Author and Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 May 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 February 2019 | ||||||
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