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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... suffer is a precondition of human— itarianism. It is the one real value Smith has to set against her satiric pictures of aristocratic and mercantile society.The sympathising hero and heroine and their friends, though threatened, bear ...
... suffering great distress with equal fortitude to her heroine and to her own 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 ...
... suffering to understand that her lover would have regretted the loss of. 1 The Novels ofjane Austen, ed. R.W Chapman,Vol. 6, Minor VVorles, 169. 1 The Poems ofCharlotte Smith, ed. Curran, 116. 2 William. 40 INTRODUCTION.
... suffered themselves to doubt, the match should take place as soon as young Willoughby became of age, who was then to assume the name of Fitz—Hayman, and in whose favour, when united with the sole heiress of the family, there was little ...
... suffered so much from crowded rooms and late hours, that though she did not even then complain, her physicians insisted on her forbearing so continually to hazard her health. Matilda, who was very uneasy if long kept from company, was ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |