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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... happiness. Even when rehearsing standard love—problems in a courtship novel, Smith's range of diction constantly carries her reader towards the philosoph— ical debates of her time and offers plenty of intellectual challenge. Where the ...
... of her sonnets on Skye,“On this lone island,” contrasts the unfruitful breast of the Hebridean rock, just able to 1 Coral Howells, Love, Mystery and Misery, 5. maintain a few sheep, with imagined happiness if she were. CELESTINA 25.
Charlotte Smith Loraine Fletcher. maintain a few sheep, with imagined happiness if she were “of thy tenderness and love possesst,” in the summers or finding a refuge from the dark, “Elysium in thy sheltering arms,” in the winters on Skye ...
... Happiness or Friendship, husked from the intense concatenation of ideas that inform personification in Pope or johnson, are left as frail survivors of the great age of wit. But in the early 17905 Smith was already attentive to accurate ...
... happiness the little Celestina could enjoy Mrs. Willoughby found an equal pleasure in returning her affection; and was sometimes moved even to tears, when happening to caress Matilda, the other amiable child would approach as if to ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |