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Mapping misogyny: Godwin's Fleetwood and the staging of Rousseauvian education.(William Godwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20020922
Author:Handwerk, Gary

"It is suffering only that can inspire us with true sympathy." (Fleetwood 45)

"The man who did not know pain would know neither the tenderness of humanity nor the sweetness of commiseration. His heart would be moved by nothing. He would not be sociable; he would be a monster among his kind." (Emile 313-14, 87)

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WHEN WILLIAM GODWIN'S THIRD MAJOR NOVEL, FLEETWOOD; OR, THE New Man of Feeling, appeared in February 1805, its forty-eight year-old author was still widely known to the British public for a series of works from the 1790s--the influential Enquiry Concerning ...

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