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 1-3 מתוך 72
... England , and left this amiable child to a fate so melancholy in itself , and so unworthy of the promise of perfection given by her infancy . Having once entertained the idea of taking her to England , it soon became too pleasing to be ...
... England ; where to all her friends , who were generally struck with the beauty and elegance of her adopted child , she related , without reserve , the little history of their acciden- tal attachment . George Willoughby , now in his ...
... England ; it was owing to these , that I left England in the hope though it became every day more mingled with apprehen- sion that I left England without accounting to you for my con- duct.1 Were these surmises groundless , why should I ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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