Caleb Williams
Caleb Williams is the riveting account of a young man whose curiosity leads him to pry into a murder from the past. The first novel of crime and detection in English literature, Caleb Williams is also a powerful exposé of the evils and inequities of the political and social system in 1790s Britain.
573 p. ; 22 cm.
9781551112497, 1551112493
1155076113
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPreface to the 1794 EditionCaleb WilliamsAppendix A: The Composition of the NovelThe Original Manuscript Ending of the NovelGodwin’s Account of the Composition of the Novel fromthe Preface to the 1832 “Standard Novels” Edition ofFleetwoodGodwin’s Account of the Novel’s Aims, from the BritishCritic (July 1795)Godwin’s Essay, “Of History and Romance” (1797)Appendix B: The Foundations of the Novel: Godwin’s PoliticalPhilosophy and England in the 1790sSelect British Responses to the French RevolutionFrom Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790)From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791)From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice(1793)From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice(1796)From Godwin’s CorrespondenceAppendix C: Criminal Lives and the State of the PrisonsFrom the Account of Jack Sheppard, in The Malefactor’sRegister; or the Newgate Calendar (1779)From John Howard, The State of the Prisons (1777)Appendix D: Literary Influences: Crime and Pursuit Narratives and Scenes of ConfrontationFrom Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)From The History of Mile, de St. Phale (1691)From Daniel Defoe, Colonel Jack (1722)From Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740-41)From Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives (1792)Appendix E: The Influence of Caleb WilliamsFrom George Colman, The Iron Chest (1796)From Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria (1798)Appendix F: Contemporary ReviewsFrom the Critical Review (July 1794)From the British Critic (July 1794)From the British Critic (April 1795)From the Monthly Review (September 1794)From the Analytical Review (January 1795)From James Mackintosh, Review of Godwin’s “Lives ofEdward and John Philips,” Edinburgh Review (October1815)From William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)Review of the 1831 edition of Caleb Williams, NewMonthly Magazine (May 1831)Works Cited/Recommended Reading
Originally published under title: Things as they are, or, The adventures of Caleb Williams