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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... Willoughby lacks moral eminence and behaves badly enough to allow the possibility that one of Celestina's two other suitors, or a third making a late appearance, will emerge from the hierarchy of characters to marry her. And though the ...
... Willoughby family goes back as far as the Civil Wars of the 1640s.The heroine is born in 1770, but the main part of the action is limited to three years. Celestina's adoptive mother Mrs.Willoughby dies early in 1787, her adoptive sister ...
... Willoughby, who gains an inheritance by the lucky circumstance that his uncle Castlenorth never discovers that he has broken off his engagement to his cousin, Castlenorth's daughter. Austen mocks or relegates to a sub—plot the typical ...
... 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 engagement, and neither narrator nor hero are embarrassed about his ...
... Willoughby became, the more they declaimed against the sin it would be to hazard the soul of la petite Celestine for the sake of any worldly advantage. While the matter was yet in debate, George Willoughby and Mr. Everard, who had been ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |