The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Robert Maniquis, UCLA and Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University

Friday, May 4

 

 

9:30 A.M.

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Moderator: Frederick Burwick, UCLA

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

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

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Moderator: Donald G. Marshall, Pepperdine University

Timothy Webb, University of Bristol
“Assassins of Truth”: William Godwin and the Temptations of Legal Oratory

Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University
History and Oratory: Godwin’s Biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

4:30 P.M.

Reception
   

Saturday, May 5

 

 

9:30 A.M

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Moderator: Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach

Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario
The Disfiguring of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin’s Mandeville

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


12:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA

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

Robert Maniquis, UCLA
Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self

 



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