‘Godwin versus Godwin’: Negotiating the War of Ideas in Charles Lloyd’s Isabel, A Tale

• Published in: Romanticism (Edinburgh) Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 239 - 252
• Main Author: Grenby, M. O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Edinburgh University Press 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Literary Studies; Hays; Godwin; Lloyd; manuscripts; Wollstonecraft; marriage

Charles Lloyd remains on the fringe of Romanticism, remembered for his relationships with Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, De Quincey and Hays, and known chiefly for his novel Edmund Oliver (1798). This essay investigates the complex history and meanings of Lloyd’s other, entirely neglected novel, Isabel,...