Print version: Rajan, Tilottama. Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 xxvii, 282 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780801897214
Includes bibliographical references and index
The trauma of lyric: Shelley’s missed encounter with poetry in Alastor -- Shelley’s Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays’ Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin’s critique of pure reason in St. Leon -- Whose text?: Godwin’s editing of Mary Wollstonecraft’s The wrongs of woman.