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 64
... Jessy indited was dispatched to the cottage of Woodburn , which was about seven miles distant . Towards evening he returned , and brought a reluctant and surly consent from her father to receive her for a lit- tle time till she ...
... Jessy , possessed , adjoined to his estate at Alvestone , Celestina imagined he could hardly fail of being some influence , which she knew he would be ready to exert for her unfor- tunate friend . In meditating how to administer to the ...
... Jessy , " said she , " while I am able , and let us there con- sider what it will be right to do . " Cathcart , glad to see her more composed than he had dared to hope , now again led her forward with the assistance of Jessy . But their ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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