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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 76
... England. In his obsession with heraldry, that is, with the coats of arms that from early—medieval times recorded the land—grab— bing and intermarriage of powerful families, he functions as the microcosm of an England imploding under the ...
... England, courtship novels presented models of behaviour and lifestyle guides.At intervals throughout Celestina, the narrator pauses to update the hero's and heroine's emotional dilemmas, moving into and out 0ftheir consciousness to ...
... England in the eighteenth century. However, Mrs. Elphinstone could be referring to Ariosto's or Spenser's epics, Orlando Furioso or The Faerie Queene. representation is open to the charge of self—absorption and muted. CELESTINA 29.
... England's hereditary enemy, so English feeling was perhaps the quicker to support change and maintain that the French aristocracy had brought their troubles on themselves. Some important architects of the new regime came from the region ...
... England in September 1789. After a brief return to France, the narrative ends in the spring of 1790. Within this time—frame, as already noted, are embedded first—per— son reminiscences that take the reader back several generations ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |