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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... nature, they find it hard to adapt to society's demands, rejecting the security of a convenient marriage, or work that would contaminate them.As S.R. Martin says, the heroine must rely on her own resources or those of a friend or two ...
... nature innately good, as the Swiss philosopher jean—jacques Rousseau believed.The narra— tor's sympathy for the victims of society, if communicated to the reader, implies the possibility of reform and progress. Many of the reforms that ...
... nature of all relationships.The Zigzags of the heroine's mind are tentative at first, acting out her difficult choices through syntactically balanced sentences, or registering indecision in concessive 0r conditional clauses. But as the ...
... Nature is beginning to triumph over established power: Rochemarte is greening over, no longer the gloomy prison where Genevieve died. Some rooms are habitable, and de Bellegarde is creating a space for his daughter and her governess ...
... nature, at a time when nature was not much regarded by English Poets; for in point of time her earlier writings preceded, I believe, those of Cowper and Burns.2 The amiably vague tone covers inaccuracies. Cowper's first publi— cation ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |