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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... received persona in the sonnets.Yet as Chris jones says,“Despite this extension of sympathy, granting to the lowly their rights of sensibility, there is still often an irritating sense of elit— ism among some predominantly liberal ...
... received a hint, that by the skilful application of means equally potent in Courts or Convents, she might learn all the Nuns knew; and in con— sequence of pursuing this hint, she was informed, that the last Supe— rior of the house, who ...
... received by their adherence to Charles the First; dur— ing whose unfortunate reign they had sold some part of their exten— sive possessions, and had been plundered of more.1 His grandfather and great—grandfather had nearly retrieved the ...
... received assurances from Italy that those his intentions and wishes were still the same. Mrs.Willoughby, though reassured in this respect, was still in very low spirits, and felt every hour, with increasing severity, the loss she had ...
... received her mournful caresses with repulsive coldness, and almost without speaking to her left her. Matilda was as usual engaged to a morning concert, and had neither time nor inclination to attend to the concern of Celestina or the ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |