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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... appeared as an illustration in the fifth, subscription edition of Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, published while Smith was planning Celestina (see Frontispiece). The edition was a triumph for Smith. Cadell had taken over as her publisher from ...
... appeared before their attempted escape to Austria, they were in effect prisoners already. In Reflections, Burke analysed the state through the metaphor of an old castle. He was not the first to use this metaphor: Smith's admired William ...
... appeared when jane Austen was only thirteen, but she was fascinated by it, especially by its hero—villain Delamere. There is conclusive evidence that she continued to read Smith's novels as they came out.1 In the early 1790s she was ...
... appeared. On this visit she showed him work in manuscript, per— haps including passages of Celestina. He was then twenty—one, unpublished and unknown. Her jessy story anticipates the manner and subject matter of some of his Lyrical ...
... appeared in 1795, orYear Three of the new regime. I have taken the first edition of Celestina as copy text. I have kept Smith's spelling (even when it is inconsistent) except where that might be confusing or distracting; I have changed ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |