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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
... hand, linking her to Smith, since she is the The pictured woman is holding visual representation of the speaker of Elegiae Sonnets, and linking her also to the reader, who is holding the published poems.The woman's gaze is turned inward ...
... hand, look innocent— ly in her face, and say with a sigh, “Helasl que n'ai je aussi une Mamanl”1 These artless expressions, and the coldness with which the sister— hood treated their infant pensioner,2 raised in Mrs. Willoughby a great ...
... hand from his forehead, he asked his mother—whether she thought Miss Fitz—Hayman as love— ly as Celestina? “As lovely as Celestina!” replied Mrs. Willoughby in great and apparently painful surprize—“how came Celestina to occur to you ...
... hand to him, when catching his mother's eye, who seemed to look at him reproaching— ly, he blushed, and only bowing and wishing Celestina her health till he saw her again, he hastened to the door, and without venturing even to look at ...
... hand— some figure, and his affluent fortune and fashionable manners, gave him that consequence which is often denied to virtues and talents. His air was that of a man of rank; and the calm coldness of his man— ner gave an idea of latent ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |