Godwin, Fénelon, and the disappearing teacher

The connection between Godwin and Fénelon has traditionally been restricted to the famous and controversial moment in the first edition of Political Justice (1793) in which Godwin presents an example of the interdependence of rationality and ethical action. This paper argues, however, that Fénelon, and particularly his political and educational treatise Telemachus (1699), plays a significant role in a number of Godwin's subsequent fictional works. Employing Telemachus to explore the theories of education presented by Godwin in the various editions of Political Justice and The Enquirer (1797), this paper explores the manner in which Godwin's version of the Enlightenment transcendence of pedagogical power comes up against its limits. Reading this issue in relation to Godwin's argument, in ‘Of Choice in Reading’, that literature remains outside of socio-ethical corruption, three of Godwin's major novels are shown to demonstrate that Telemachus provides the chance for meta-textual moments in which the appeal to reason (the reader's rational capacity or ‘private judgement’) is at once reflected upon and produced. Reading educational theories and problems into Godwin's major fiction in this fashion helps to clarify aspects of the Godwinian (or ‘Jacobin’) novel.

 Graphitization of Small Carbonate Samples for Paleoceanographic Research at the Godwin Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Cambridge

A new radiocarbon preparation facility was set up in 2010 at the Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, at the University of Cambridge. Samples are graphitized via hydrogen reduction on an iron powder catalyst before being sent to the Chrono Centre, Belfast, or the Australian National University for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) analysis. The experimental setup and procedure have recently been developed to investigate the potential for running small samples of foraminiferal carbonate. By analyzing background values of samples ranging from 0.04 to 0.6 mg C along with similar sized secondary standards, the setup and experimental procedures were optimized for small samples. “Background” modern 14C contamination has been minimized through careful selection of iron powder, and graphitization has been optimized through the use of “small volume” reactors, allowing samples containing as little as 0.08 mg C to be graphitized and accurately dated. Graphitization efficiency/fractionation is found not to be the main limitation on the analysis of samples smaller than 0.07 mg C, which rather depends primarily on AMS ion beam optics, suggesting further improvements in small sample analysis might yet be achieved with our methodology.

Jewish antiquities : or, a course of lectures on the three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron, to which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew language

by David Jennings

Jewish antiquities or a course of lectures on the three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron : to which is annexed, a dissertation on the hebrew language /

Mode of access: Internet.

New ideas on population : with remarks on the theories of Malthus and Godwin /

Mode of access: Internet.

The poetical works of the late Catherine Grace Godwin.

Imperfect copy: p. 569-572 out of order.

The sons of Godwin. A tragedy.

"Time of the drama, A.D. 1065-6."

Memoirs and posthumous works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ...

Memoirs written by William Godwin.

St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century.

A satire on William Godwin's novel St. Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century.

Lectures on the atheistic controversy : delivered in the months of February and March, 1834, at Sion Chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire. Forming the first part of a course of lectures on infidelity / By the Rev. B. Godwin.

Mode of access: Internet.

Jewish antiquities : or, a course of lectures on the three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a dissertation on the Hebrew language /

Published after author's death by Philip Furneaux.

Nouvelles idées sur la population, avec remarques sur les théories de Malthus et de Godwin;

Translation of New ideas on population, with remarks on the theories of Malthus and Godwin.

Shelley, Godwin, and their circle,

"Bibliography," p. 252-254.