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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... allowed me to use them before their publication.They are now published by Indiana University Press, augmented by recent discoveries during the renovations at Petworth House. Many thanks to Peter Mendes for the first edition of Celestina ...
... allowed great flexibility. Its tone is often satiric: the narrator and the heroine use their wit to discriminate among varied characters and customs. Often the heroine is herself the object of narrative irony, only at the end learning ...
... allowed some depth, even some pathos. Matilda Willoughby, who marries Molyneux mainly for his prospective baronetcy ... allows little sense of an old chivalric ideal betrayed by contemporary aristocracy. On the con— trary, those who ...
... allow the possibility that one of Celestina's two other suitors, or a third making a late appearance, will emerge ... allowed only a background presence most of the time. In the previous generation, Celestina's father and uncle are each ...
... allowed expansion into areas beyond the domestic. Multiple narrative, a characteristic of Smith's previous fiction, also helps to sustain interest in a four—decker. Celestina becomes a patroness and friend to two other women.]essy ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |