CelestinaBroadview Press, 25 באוק׳ 2004 - 603 עמודים Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life. |
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... Celestina does not quite avoid predictability in its marriage—ending, but Smith does her best to keep up suspense. Willoughby lacks moral eminence and behaves badly enough to allow the possibility that one of Celestina's two other ...
... Celestina. As one might expect in a novel supporting innovation in national politics, Celestina is daring in its attitude to established sexual morality and society's treatment of the “fallen” woman. Emily is seduced at fifteen on a ...
... Celestina, literature is talismanic, her greatest help in times of trouble, as Smith's letters suggest it was for her. Celestina reads and writes in an attempt to make sense of the world, and can quote from memory Petrarch, Metastasio ...
... Celestina invited sustained attack by Austen. Sense and Sensibility, like Celestina, is set between Devonshire and London, though Austen avoids Smith's excursions into foreign and sublime landscapes. Austen's London scenes are ...
... Celestina understands much earlier in her narrative. Smith's Willoughby is absolved from any real blame by the way she develops her plot. Miss Fitz—Hayman turns out to have a lover already, so he is justified in breaking their ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |