Framing the Corpus: Godwin's 'Editing' of Wollstonecraft ...

By thus emphasizing psychic pain, Godwin shows how irritations in Wollstonecraft's life "excite" the ideas put forward in the major works. Yet he also turns ideology inwards to a wounded life as the face of its own possible failure. And Godwin goes out of his way to stress this wounding. ................
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