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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 84
... Celestina ! -But forgive me , Madam ; it is presumption indeed in me to address you so freely ; yet Celestina is the only name in the world that seems to me fit for you . The common terms of formal civility are unworthy of you . Let me ...
... Celestina , had for some time interested her for him ; and she imputed his extravagant vivacity , and even his violent irregular- ities , to his youth and unchecked habits of gratification ... Celestina could not assent ; but , CELESTINA 381.
... Celestina were sitting at a break- fast table , where the uneasiness they were both under did not allow them to eat , a servant announced Captain Thorold . Celestina turned pale as death at the name ; but there was no time to express ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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