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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... woman's marriage choice, or ultimate refusal of marriage, could be made to carry a huge freight of authorial comment on manners, fashions, morals, changing social patterns, economics, genetics, and sexual and national politics. In the ...
... woman's goal but that great cau— tion is necessary in achieving it, a more tolerant attitude to extramarital sex and the “fallen” woman than is usually found in English novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, threatening ...
... woman of quality. Celestina heard him at first with concern, from an idea that he had heard Lady Horatia misrepresented; but when, on his afterwards repeating this conversation, she found that he knew nothing of her character even from ...
... woman readers struggling with more repressive notions of humility, self—examination and self—blame as the particular duties of their sex. Although the narrator occasionally remembers to commend Celestina's silence in company, we always ...
... woman” narrative than Smith had managed in Emmeline. At a time when novels were becoming more and more cross—ref— erential, naming could be programmatic. Emily's name directed the contemporary reader to compare a sympathetic treatment ...
תוכן
The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |