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- Title
Free Indirect Discourse and the Problem of the Will in Two Novels by William Godwin.
- Authors
MANGANARO, THOMAS SALEM
- Abstract
The article discusses free indirect discourse (FID) as an important formal technique in the early realist novel due to its ability to convey the complex qualities of the will through novelist William Godwin's early novels "St. Leon" (1799) and "Fleetwood" (1805). The novels apparently raise philosophical and moral issues regarding weak-willed characters' will and their ability to follow through with what they know they ought to do.
- Subjects
FREE indirect speech; REALIST fiction; GODWIN, William, 1756-1836; ST. Leon (Book); FLEETWOOD (Book); WILL
- Publication
Studies in Romanticism, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 2, p301
- ISSN
0039-3762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/srm.2018.0013