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 58
... painful subject, to relate to you my past life?” “And do you know, my dear Madam,” replied Celestina, “that no wandering lady in romance had ever more inclination to lose her own reflections in listening to the history of some friend ...
... painful surprize—“how came Celestina to occur to you?” “Nay,” answered her son, attempting to appear indifferent— “I know not how, unless because she is the prettiest young woman I have lately seen.” “Surely you do not think of ...
הגעת למגבלת הצפייה עבור ספר זה מדוע?.
הגעת למגבלת הצפייה עבור ספר זה מדוע?.
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תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |