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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... early as August, 1789,1 five weeks after the storming of the Bastille, when events in France, and English attitudes to those events, were confused and changing rapidly. By beginning with a hero— ine abandoned at birth in a Celestine ...
... early—medieval times recorded the land—grab— bing and intermarriage of powerful families, he functions as the microcosm of an England imploding under the weight of dead tra— dition. Castlenorth's constitution and the body politic are ...
... early 1780s; Blake, indeed, claimed he had taught Stothard “how to see.”2 pages of manuscript in her hand, linking her to Smith, since she is the The pictured woman is holding visual representation of the speaker of Elegiae Sonnets, and ...
... early on the town had a fast and politically radical tone. Smith remembered hol— idays at Brighton before her marriage when she was “a gay dancer at Balls, and a light—hearted Equestrian on the Hills.”2 Later she had brought children ...
... early in 1787, her adoptive sister Matilda marries Molyneux in the late spring, and Celestina spends that summer on a tour with them in the West Country, returning to London in the autumn where she meets the Castlenorths and learns that ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |