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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... felt by Celestina as she waits in Lady Horatia's drawing—room for George Willoughby's reply to her plead— ing letter. Marianne meets her Willoughby by chance at a party (Appendix A.5), as Celestina does in Volume III, Chapter 9. The ...
... felt her own situation; her tender attachment to her benefactress, and to Matilda, and the sense and sweetness visible in all she said and did, procured for her, in the ten— der and generous heart of Mrs.Willoughby, an interest little ...
... felt any pleasure during his abode at their house, was that in which his mother fixed the time of departing for her own.Thither he returned with redoubled delight, after the restraint he had felt himself under at Castlenorth; for there ...
... felt by Mrs. Willoughby, who apprehended that not only the immediate but the contingent inter— est of her son might be deeply affected by it: she doubted whether it would not change the intention of her brother in his favor; but after ...
... felt rising to her eyes. Mrs.Willoughby stood at the door till her son turned into another street; and was then going to her own room, when Celestina, from an emotion she could not command, caught her hand and burst into tears: and for ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |