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 71
... tell her story in a way that reminds the read— er of the constructedness of all narratives, whether they are “history,” “biography,” or “fiction.” She and Celestina, enclosed in a coach and travelling north, are, she says ...
... tell his story of youthful rebellion against authority, he fixes his eyes on a scene outside one of the windows where again architecture and landscape imaginatively symbolise political move— ment.Willoughby looks towards a wood of fir ...
... tell him that I was totally dependent on my Uncle and Aunt?” Yes, I told him everything.” “And what did he say?” “He exclaimed with virulence against Uncles and Aunts; Accused the Laws of England for allowing them to possess their ...
... tell you my thoughts in a mat— ter, on which the prosperity of your future life depends. I need not say, George, that seeing it in that light, there is nothing in this world so near my heart as its completion.” Willoughby, whose mind ...
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תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |