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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... Lady Horatia , who seemed extremely pleased with hav- ing met her , enquired after Lady Molyneux , and such other of their former friends , as she thought would renew no unpleasing recollec- tions : for though she did not know all that ...
... Lady Horatia looked at her with more than her usual tender complacency ; 1 for it was when her fine open countenance expressed pensive sorrow , that she was , from her then particularly resembling the regretted brother of Lady Horatia ...
... Lady Horatia took of her , and her daughter Bettenson , delighted and elated her ; rending her so disgustingly civil , that only the regard Lady Horatia felt for Mr. Thorold and Montague , would have induced her to sup- port the awkward ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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