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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Charlotte Smith Loraine Fletcher. be married to very soon ; as Miss Fitz - Hayman has insisted upon this before she gives her hand to her cousin , which is also to happen very soon in Italy . " " Miss Fitz - Hayman ! " said Celestina ...
... Fitz - Hayman . - She had hardly felt her heart sink under this cruel idea , before Willoughby himself appeared , and Lady Castlenorth making room for him , he sat down between her and her daughter . A look from the penetrating eyes of ...
... Fitz - Hayman great reason to suppose that he intended fulfill- ing his original engagement with her : yet now that he saw he must either continue to act what he could not but feel was a dishon- ourable and disingenuous part , or break ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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