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 54
... interest in a four—decker. Celestina becomes a patroness and friend to two other women.]essy Woodburn, a farmer's daughter who goes into service in a London household, tells her story towards the end of volume one. Sophy Elphinstone ...
... interest— ing volume. In Emmeline, the hero and the “fallen” Lady Adelina are the poets. Reviewers had regretted the absence of poetry in Ethelinde. Here, Celestina is the only poet, contributing five sonnets and one short verse ...
... interest in encouraging the heiress Henrietta Halton into marriage with a fortune—hunter, Musgrove, describes his modesty and merit to her victim: “In short my Love it was the work of some hours for me to per— suade the poor despairing ...
... interest little short of what she felt for Matilda herself. Every hour increased this interest; till after a stay of eighteen months at Hieres, during which she had seen her almost every day, she found, in reflecting on her departure ...
... interest of ten thousand pounds given to his daughter,2 they slowly and with difficulty produced, under the man— agement of very careful executors, little more than sufficient to pay such charges, and the interest of the money for which ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |