May 4-5, 2007

The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment

a conference at the Clark Library directed by
Robert Maniquis, UCLA and Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University

 

Speakers Include:

Robert Anderson, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library

Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Heavy Drama

Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Reviewing and Ideological Change: Two Moments in the Malthus-Godwin Controversy

Gary Handwerk, University of Washington, Seattle
“Awakening the Mind”: Godwin on Education

Robert Maniquis, University of California, Los Angeles
Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self

Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Oratory and History: Godwin's Biography of William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham

Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
The Disfiguration of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin: Mandeville

Timothy Webb, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Assassins of Truth: William Godwin and the Temptations of Oratory



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