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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
... look into the glass without seeing the reflection of a form, worthy of so fair an inhabitant as an enlightened human soul....(350) Her supposed illegitimacy, at the time of writing arguably shame— ful, and certainly a social ...
... look at the moon, and fancy that my mother might be there with my sister, and that they saw and pitied their unfortunate Jessy. (115) The passage of more than two hundred years has put some obsta— cles in the way of appreciation of ...
... 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 desire ...
... 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 her, as she followed him thither with his mother and sister ...
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תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |