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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... London ; ( ? ) her father returns . 25 Oct : Accession of George III . Leaves school , " comes out " into London society ; Nicholas Turner , in financial difficulties , sells Stoke Place , near Guild- ford . 1763 Seven Years ' War ends ...
... London his sister's wedding , which was now to take place in a month , and for which preparations were mak- ing : 1 but about a week before the day fixed for Mrs. Willoughby's departure for London , an inflammation on her already ...
... London party is revisioned in John Willoughby's encounter with Mar- ianne Dashwood in Austen's Sense and Sensibility . ] 1. Mary Wollstonecraft [ signed " M. " ] , The Analytical Review ( August 1791 ) , in The Works of Mary ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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