The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
This thesis examines the work of William Godwin in terms of a conjunction between secular Enlightenment optimism and the psychology of Christian hope. This conjunction produced his particular inflection of human perfectibility, where the idea of liberal improvement in society becomes a semi-fictiona...
Main Author: | Morgan, John Charles |
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Other Authors: | Whale, John |
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University of Leeds
2006
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426808 |
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