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 88
... marriage. But genre is flexible: “courtship n n story, novel of sensibility” and “Gothic tale” are interchangeable terms for much of the fiction of the later eighteenth century. By then, the novel had become for many as compulsive a ...
... marriage is a woman's goal but that great cau— tion is necessary in achieving it, a more tolerant attitude to extramarital sex and the “fallen” woman than is usually found in English novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
... marriage her parents have arranged for her fails to materialise. High rank, whether acquired by effort or conferred by birth, makes nobody happy except Lord Castlenorth, who is senile. He embodies what Smith most despises and hopes to ...
... marriage—ending, but Smith does her best to keep up suspense. Willoughby lacks moral eminence and behaves badly ... marry her. And though the narrator is always reliable, the villainous Lady Castlenorth's claim that Celestina is ...
... marriage with Miss Fitz—Hayman as prostituting himself, a concept elsewhere only just coming into use to analyse the female marriage—market. Physical sensitivity to experience is a liability, since it is insepara— ble from sexual ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |