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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... idea of latent powers, which he was supposed to be too indolent to exert” (69). But the subjects of her satire are allowed some depth, even some pathos. Matilda Willoughby, who marries Molyneux mainly for his prospective baronetcy, is ...
... idea that he had heard Lady Horatia misrepresented; but when, on his afterwards repeating this conversation, she found that he knew nothing of her character even from report, and only described her in so unpleasant a light from his wish ...
... idea of taking her to England, it soon became too pleasing to be relinquished. There were howev— er great difficulties in the way.Though the community complained of Celestina as a burden to them, they made, as they declared, a point of ...
... idea of his cousin, than that she was a tall, fat, formal brown girl, whom he soon forgot and never desired to remember. His uncle's complaints and quack1 medicines—his long lectures on genealogy2 and heraldry3—had tired him; and Lady ...
... idea of her otherwise than as a sister. There are objections—insuperable objections. For God's sake, George, let me be assured that you will never again think of her.” “Dear Madam,” returned Willoughby with some quickness, “that is ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |