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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... Miss de Mornay ! " repeated Celestina , again interrupting him— " Miss de Mornay and Madam . Ah ! Mr. Willoughby ! those appella- tions of distant civility convince me that I have no longer a friend- a brother .... " " Nay , but my dear ...
... Miss Maclaurin had a fair field for her attractive talents ; and they were so effectually exerted , that in about five months after Lord Castlenorth's reception into the family of Maclaurin , he became himself a member of it , and Miss ...
... Miss Thorold , but he hardly made his bow to them before he said to the latter- " Miss de Mornay is with you still , Madam ; is she not ? " " With us ? " replied Arabella . “ Oh ! yes — Miss de Mornay is with us . " " She is well I hope ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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