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Chapter 6 marks the first sustained consideration of Godwin Jr’s place in the Godwin-Shelley canon. It argues that Godwin Jr himself was keenly aware of his intellectual outsider status, and the fact that he also had a biological claim to both parents which Shelley did not. His fiction is a meditation on these two competing models of the family, and in his novel Transfusion he draws on the nineteenth century’s new evolutionary scientific discourses to imaginatively displace Godwin and reimagine the family along bloodlines.
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Turner, B. (2017). William Godwin Jr and the ‘Ties of Blood’: After the Family of Feeling. In: Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2_6
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