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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... tenderness and love possesst,” in the summers or finding a refuge from the dark, “Elysium in thy sheltering arms,” in the winters on Skye. Imagination is linked to erotic feeling here, as it often was in the 1790s, and the Critical ...
... tenderness or sparkling vivacity was the most predominant; or whether it was the loveliness of her little form and face, or the enchantment of her manners, which made her so very attractive, that the very servants who saw her with ...
... tenderness than prudence studiously concealed from him, that his father's affairs were at his death so much embar— rassed, as to render it doubtful whether a minority of near thirteen years would so far clear his estates, as to enable ...
... tenderness, in this instance perhaps injudicious, had hith— erto kept him in ignorance. The longer this affectionate mother thought of the pain she should inflict on her son, the less she found herself able to undertake it: she ...
... tenderness.After they had dined, as Matilda was still out, their reading went on as usual. Mrs.Willoughby took no notice of the swollen eyes and half—stifled sobs which still agitated the gentle bosom of her young friend; but without ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |