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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... Lord Castlenorth, who is senile. He embodies what Smith most despises and hopes to see reformed in England. In his obsession with heraldry, that is, with the coats of arms that from early—medieval times recorded the land—grab— bing and ...
... Lord Castlenorth, while expecting to inherit his money, his frequent rudeness excused by self—absorption, and the lack of principle that allows him to court Miss Fitz—Hayman though he dislikes her, set him up for Smith's own satiric ...
... Lord Castlenorth, who was then in England (though his health occasioned him for the most part to reside abroad), and it was then agreed with him, or rather with Lady Castlenorth, whose will was his law, that if the young people liked ...
... Castlenorth's dictatorial manner offended and disgusted him. He told Mr. Everard, that the only hour in which he had ... Lord Castlenorth, his lady, and daughter, were now in Italy, and were to remain there till with— in six months of ...
... Lord Castlenorth, is the last male of a line dis— tinguished since the Conquest;1 your cousin, his only daughter, will inherit his fortune; the titles die with him. It is equally natural there— fore for him and for me, to wish that you ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |