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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... promise of marriage, then taken into “keep— ing,” maintenance as a mistress, by Vavasour. She gives money she makes from him to a doctor in a vain attempt to save her nephew's life. Later, when she is dying, she tries to persuade ...
... promise of perfection given by her infancy. Having once entertained the idea of taking her to England, it soon became too pleasing to be relinquished. There were howev— er great difficulties in the way.Though the community complained of ...
... promise to educate her without influencing her to change her reli— gion, and to provide for her, together with a direction where she might, in case of enquiry, be found, was permitted to carry with her, from Hieres, the lovely little ...
... promise. How is it possible for me to assure you, with any hope of my being able to keep my word, that I will not think of a beautiful and interesting object, which, whenever I am with you, is continually before my eyes?” “Well then ...
... promise given to his mother, he was introduced to his future brother—in—law. But a very short Observation convinced him that they were not designed for friends; and that however closely they might be allied, Mr. Molyneux would still be ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |