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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... leave their monasteries and convents.Tithes had been abolished, and severe limitation of the numbers and kinds of clergy to be recog— nised by the state was then being debated: a decree on the Civil Con— stitution of the Clergy was ...
... leave them his money; the grandfather has no point of view at all. Smith's ethics in Celestina invited sustained attack by Austen. Sense and Sensibility, like Celestina, is set between Devonshire and London, though Austen avoids Smith's ...
... leaving his children in the care of their aunt, Lucy Towers, mainly at Bignor Park, Sussex. At school in Chichester, Sussex. At school in Kensington, London; her father returns. 25 Oct:Accession of George III. Leaves school,“comes out ...
... leave; Harriet goes back to Bengal with him; CS living in London; George Wyndham, Earl of Egremont pays off Thomas ... leaves her husband and returns to CS pregnant and with two children; CS living at Frant. Mary Hays' critique and life ...
... leave, that it would be time enough to talk over the business she had opened to him when the parties to whom it related were in England, but that she might assure herself that her happiness was always nearer his heart than his own. This ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |