Lecture: Mark Canuel, "Politics in the First Person: Mary Hays and William Godwin"

The Seminar in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Studies (SENS) presents a lecture from Mark Canuel, "Politics in the First Person: Mary Hays and William Godwin"

Mark Canuel is Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on the areas of British Romanticism, Critical Theory, Political Theory, and Aesthetics. His work explores the connections between political and literary forms, particularly as they emerged in response to the pressures of revolution, reform, and religious dissent between the 1770s and the 1820s. He is author of four monographs: Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830 (Cambridge, 2002); The Shadow of Death: Romanticism, Literature, and the Subject of Punishment (Princeton, 2007); Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime (Johns Hopkins, 2012); and The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism (Oxford, 2022). He is also editor of British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2015), a collection of new and previously published critical essays on Romanticism; and editor of a Romantic Circles Praxis volume on Romantic Systems (2016). He is currently at work on a new book on the formal contours of Jacobin fiction. His numerous essays and reviews have appeared in journals including ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Representations, Studies in Romanticism, and The Wordsworth Circle.

Originally published at english.nd.edu.