William Godwin's place in eighteenth century memoir writing: the example of the Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin's Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft are a mixture of innovation and tradition in eighteenth-century life writing. In his readings of Hume, Gibbon, Johnson or Boswell, he would have found a philosophical approach to biography similar to his own. This approach implied a condensation of univer...
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Universidad de Alicante
2002-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
| Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2002-n15-william-godwins-place-in-eighteenth-century-memoir-writing-the-example-of-the-memoirs-of-mary-wollstonecraft |