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 78
... became the playfellow of a little girl almost three years younger , who was known among the Nuns by the name of la petite Celestine . The fondness which soon subsisted between her and Matilda introduced her of course to Mrs. Willoughby ...
... became a Nun , and fill one of the inferior offices2 of the convent , since she had no friends3 or money to pay for being on a higher footing . The pity excited by this account , added to the sensibility with which , infant as she was ...
... became calmer , and sat down ; then as I stood still trembling by him , he took my hands within his and put them to his burning forehead and eyes ; but after a moment seeming to recollect himself , he sighed , let them go and said ' I ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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