I really enjoyed working with John-Erik on bouncing Godwin against Ngai’s aesthetic theory #Rom2Uni
Dr Andrew McInnes
@johnerik-h.bsky.social thinks about what Godwin finds interesting in and for children’s literature in relation to Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic category of the interesting
Writing under the pseudonym of Edward Baldwin in the preface to the Fables, Ancient and Modern (1805) the first book for children he wrote for his own bookselling business, William Godwin argued th…